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Keep Believing That

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

My first reaction after reading Steve Benen’s post was “Keep believing what you’re writing.” Here’s what I’m talking about:

For all the palpable anxiety in Democratic circles, there’s still time. Sinking poll numbers are largely the result of inaction, Americans want to see results, and they’re not getting any. If Dems run for the hills, matters will only get worse.

It isn’t about the Democrats’ tactics. It isn’t about the Democrats’ communications strategy. It’s about their failed economic policies. It’s about the damage that the Democrats’ health care policies would’ve caused if they would’ve been implemented.

When I hear Democrats say that people only have a negative opinion of their health care legislation because they haven’t correctly communicated the provisions in the bill, I question whether they watched the videos from August’s townhall meetings, where informed citizen after informed citizen ‘educated’ their legislators.

I recall Claire McCaskill telling the audience that President Obama never endorsed a single-payer health care system. I loved it when someone from the audience hollared “It’s on YouTube.” It isn’t that we don’t know what’s in these bills. It’s that people like Betsy McCaughey, Keith Hennessey and King Banaian read the bills and published specific language from the bills on their websites.

We knew what was in the Democrats’ health care bill. We rejected the tax increases, the individual mandates and the fines for not buying health insurance policies that the federal government approved.

Another thing that Democrats should do is keep sending President Obama into races where Democrats are currently in trouble: (more…)

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