Political Quotes

“Madam President, Americans might have noticed a trend in ObamaCare headlines over the past two days. There was Sunday's Politico story and it basically had this title: ``Why liberals are abandoning the Obamacare employer mandate.'' There was an Associated Press story entitled ``Senate Democrats Try to Pull Focus From Obamacare.'' Then on Monday, Politico published a story called ``Obamacare's next threat: A September surprise'' about the White House efforts to prepare Democrats to meet September rate hike announcements. All of these stories amount to one thing. Democrats are running scared from ObamaCare. These three articles are just a few of the many pieces to be published about Democrats' efforts to distance themselves from ObamaCare in preparation for the November election. It is not surprising they are worried. ObamaCare is Democrats' and the White House's main legislative achievement, and Americans don't like it. They didn't like it in 2010 when the law was passed, they didn't like it when the law was being implemented, and they don't like it now. A Quinnipiac poll from last week reported that 55 percent of Americans oppose ObamaCare. Similar numbers of Americans opposed it 3 months earlier, and almost 3 months before that. In fact, when we average polling on the health care law from late 2009 until today, we find the health care law has consistently been opposed by the majority of Americans.…”