It's not Fox News' fault that Obamacare is bad law

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Washington Examiner:

f you look at a year-long graph of public attitudes toward the national health care law, you'll see that the last time a majority of Americans supported the Democratic plan was July 2009 -- before there actually was a Democratic plan. Once voters found out what was in Obamacare, they opposed it.
Opposition peaked in December 2009, when Democrats used their filibuster-proof majority to push the bill through the Senate on a straight party-line vote. Opposition remained high through March 2010, when House and Senate Democrats pulled out all the procedural stops to pass the final parts of the bill. After that, public opinion has remained remarkably steady: by a margin of 10 to 15 percentage points, Americans don't approve of Obamacare.

Why? One obvious answer is that it's a bad law. But that, of course, is unacceptable to Democrats who staked their careers on it. So they've come up with other explanations.

First they argued that voters disliked the law because they were unfamiliar with it -- see Nancy Pelosi's famous "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it" remark. Then they argued that the public actually likes many parts of the law and will ultimately like the whole thing. Finally, they argued that people have been misled by Republicans and the media, particularly Fox News.

Now, they're doubling down with a new study that gives an academic sheen to their case, as well as a "fact-checking" analysis that purportedly proves GOP dishonesty.

The study, "Misinformation and the 2010 Election: A Study of the U.S. Electorate," came out last week from a group at the University of Maryland called WorldPublicOpinion.org. The report's authors say they found "strong evidence that voters were substantially misinformed on many of the issues prominent in the election campaign." One of those issues was health care.

[AceRimmer]

SOP for the RATS: lie, distort, make up things, and when all else fails bring out the class-warfare and race cards along with the need for a new "Fairness Doctrine" to silence critics on FNC and talk radio.

 

They're really becoming boring in their predictability...