They explain that when divided up, Americans do like Obamacare and they carefully use only selected polls about individual questions without acknowledging that the majority is against the whole package, not separate issues that could have been passed in a much smaller bill.
Obamacare is 2,309 pages long and it was a battle publicly fought for 15 months before a Democratically controlled House of Representatives and Senate passed it and a Democratic President, Obama, signed it into law, over the objections of the majority of Americans.
After the passage of Obamacare, Republicans immediately started talking about repealing it, used that as one cohesive message across the board, while explaining that total repeal and replacement would be impossible with Barack Obama as President with veto power.
It was a promise Republicans made to Americans, one incentive given to Americans to be allowed a second chance.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010, midterm election day, America overwhelmingly voted to give Republicans that second chance giving them the biggest turnover of House seats, from Democrats to Republican, in 72 years, giving them another 6 seats in the Senate and massive amounts of state seats.
John Boehner, the most likely candidate for Speaker of the House beginning January, gave a speech on election night and he made a promise:
The people's priorities will be our priorities; and the people's agenda will be our agenda. This is our pledge to American and this is our pledge to you....
There will be many battles in the next two years, government spending, taxes and unemployment, just to name a few.
As long as the Republicans controlling House remember that promise, and abide by American's wishes, fighting for lower government spending, a smaller government and refuse to allow a rise in taxes, all issues voters have spoken up about loud and clearly, then the public will stand behind them and support them.
The biggest fight on behalf of the American people will be fought over Obamacare and after 15 months of battling and finally passing it without support from Republicans and against the opposition of American voters, even knowing it would harm them politically in the 2010 midterm election, far left liberal Democrats will not go down on this issue without a fight.
Barack Obama knows this, which is why in his speech the day after the midterms he specified one individual point, attempting to signal his willingness to work with Republicans, where he said "You know, for example, I know one of the things that's come up is that the 1099 provision in the health-care bill appears to be too burdensome for small businesses. It just involves too much paperwork, too much filing. It's probably counterproductive. It was designed to make sure that revenue was raised to help pay for some of the other provisions, but if it ends up just being so much -- so much trouble that small businesses find it difficult to manage, that's something that we should take a look at. "
Other issues though, it is doubtful, in fact almost assuredly impossible for Democrats to walk back on, such as the individual mandate which is being litigated in the courts as of this writing with 20 states challenging the constitutionality and which the majority of Americans are against.
Which brings us to the reason Obamacare will be the killing blow to Democrats and perhaps even Barack Obama in the 2012 elections.
While admitting that certain provisions, such as having insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions are welcome, Republicans have made it clear they cannot enact a full repeal of Obamacare without the cooperation of the Democratically controlled Senate and Barack Obama. Something they are guaranteed not to get and an issue that will guarantee that Republicans are supported by the majority of Americans and which will once again pit Democrats against American voters in a very public fashion.
New York Times:
Republicans, who will control the House starting in January but will remain in the minority in the Senate, acknowledge that they do not have the votes for their ultimate goal of repealing the health law, the most polarizing of Mr. Obama’s signature initiatives.
But they said they hoped to use the power of the purse to challenge main elements of the law, forcing Democrats — especially those in the Senate who will be up for re-election in 2012 — into a series of votes to defend it.
2010 midterms are over and on to 2012 elections
Democratic politicians are admitting Barack Obama is disconnected from the American public, Nancy Pelosi who has announced she intends to stay in politics and will be running for the position of minority leader touting her intent to "protecting health care" while saying she has no regrets and Harry Reid who is still the Senate Majority leader touts Obamacare as an achievement instead of a betrayal to American voters.
Compare all that to polling which shows the American public, by 58 to 45 percent favor repeal of Obamacare and you have a recipe for more Democratic disaster in 2012.
To protect Barack Obama from having to go directly up against American voters by vetoing any type of major repeal on the most egregious portions of Obamacare, the Democratically controlled Senate will have to stop any Republican House initiatives and 33 Senate seats are in play in 2012. Democrats have 23 of those seats, including 2 Independents which caucus with Democrats and only 10 are held by Republicans.
Obamacare will be the killing blow to those Democrats and perhaps even to Barack Obama in the 2012 elections because instead of receiving the messages Americans sent loud and clearly on November 2, 2010, they are prepared to double down and continue to defy the American public in that which has become the single most divisive issue.
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