On the recordFebruary 1, 2011
I think he very eloquently pointed out why this amendment we are hopefully going to be voting on, which will repeal the health care law, is so important. Obviously, there is a big debate that has been raging in the country over the past year about this legislation as it was being considered here in the Congress, and I think the one thing that is clear about the public's view of this is that they think it was a bad idea. And that hasn't changed. That was true a year ago, that was true 6 months ago, and that is still true today. I think the administration had tried to argue they had merely done a poor job of communicating to the American people how great this health care reform idea was. But that excuse misses the point entirely. The American people are not clueless. They know a bad idea when they see one, and they understand that the Democratic health care plan was a bad idea. So despite the administration's full court PR press in trying to reverse the public opinion, the health spending law remains unpopular in the polls.
