Democrats strategy for winning in 2010 – Run on ObamaCARE and blame Bush

obama-care5While the blame Bush fad worked for the first few months of Obama’s term, the excuse has become less potent with the American people as the months go by, no matter how much Obama and the rest of the Democrats try it. So why should it come as any surprise that the Democrat’s “brilliant” strategy fo  2010 strategy to protect their House and Senate seats is not only to blame Bush, but to run on the widely unpopular ObamaCARE bill? According to The Wall Street Journal, they will also campaign on ObamaCARE! I kid you not!

Slumping in the polls and struggling to pass climate and financial legislation, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are counting on an historic health care victory to buoy their electoral prospects in 2010.

But Republicans argued Sunday that the issue is breaking their way, and liberal infighting indicates the party leadership has to win back its base along with the larger electorate.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been telling Democrats a win on the health issue will reverse the slide in public opinion, just as passage of another controversial proposal, the North American Free Trade Agreement, lifted President Bill Clinton in the polls.

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Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the last Democratic holdout, walks outside the Capitol on Saturday, following his agreement to support health-care legislation.
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The apparent success by Senate Democrats this weekend in securing the necessary votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of health care before Christmas will offset setbacks on climate change and financial industry regulation, Democrats say.

“The reality, I think, will trump poll numbers in the dead of winter as this debate is going on,” White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

“We’re governing through difficult times,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think we’re going to be in a better place” when the midterm elections arrive.

Republicans say public opinion is on their side.

“If Democrats want to run on this, then we invite them to go ahead and do so. The Obama-Pelosi agenda continues to feed into the emerging 2010 narrative that this is a Congress that spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much,” Ken Spain, communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Sunday.

Last week’s Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll not only showed a substantial majority opposed to the plan, but for the first time, it showed a plurality favoring the status quo over passage

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December 21, 2009 · Filed Under Democrats, General Politics, ObamaCARE


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  • democratsarefascists

    Higher taxes with no benefits.

    Uh…yeah!

    You go with that, guys.

    The ads write themselves!

  • Brit

    After 8 years of war based on lies of WMD while over 4,000 troops died and 700 billion dollars wasted we the people and patriots of America have had enough and voted out the real fascists. Now we have a leader who cares about this country and his policies show it. Concern for all Americans instead of just rich and corporations. A person who believes in science and doesn’t have his head in his A.. “sand”. A person who cares about health care and eduction, environment and stimulating the economy instead of running it into a ditch like Republicans. A person who spends money on people and jobs instead of lies and war mongering. Ah yes change is good for me, you and the country. Get over it! LOL