Campaign 2010: The Path to the Majority
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Wednesday afternoon, I included a quote from DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz in one of my posts. Here’s Schultz’s quote on what the Democrats’ campaign strategy should be:
“Republicans on the ballot next November who opposed the bill will be in the precarious position of telling voters they plan to rollback landmark health care reform which will have afforded coverage to hundreds of thousands in their state,” DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz emails.
“We absolutely intend to make Republicans look voters in the eye next November and make it clear they want to take affordable health care reform away from them,” Schultz continues, adding that they intend to press the case that “if it was worth filibustering” to Republicans, then surely it’s “worth repealing.”
This fight should be one that Republicans nationwide should be licking their chops over having. If the Democrats want to defend their raising taxes, exploding the deficit, hiking health insurance premiums and cutting corrupt deals to get to that sixtieth vote, then let’s have that fight.
The American people passionately hate the Democrats’ health care legislation. They don’t believe that it won’t explode the deficit. They’ve watched the corruption involved in the Senate making sausage. They’ve read about the impending tax increases contained in this legislation. If Democrats want to remind voters of these things, then let’s oblige them. (more…)