Why President Obama Is Doubling Down On Health Care

[Rokke]

Buzzfeed:

Posted

Mar 19, 2012 1:18am EDT

 

 

 

 

President Obama’s re-election campaign has launched an all-out defense of his landmark, and unpopular, health care overhaul, a move that marks a realization: The issue can’t be avoided.

President Obama’s aides promised Democrats they’d be rewarded in the 2010 midterms for what supporters call the Affordable Care Act and detractors label “ObamaCare.” When they were instead, as Obama said, shellacked in midterms, the White House sought repeatedly to change the subject and “pivoted” several times to the issue of jobs.

But a series of recent moves make clear that health care is back. An Obama campaign official told BuzzFeed the renewed focus is tied to the second anniversary of the health care bill later this week, but it’s also the product of necessity, and opportunity. The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, forcing the legislation into the national conversation, and will rule on it in June. But in the debate over contraception this winter, the White House also sees an opportunity to rebrand the battle over the legislation as part of the “war on women” it accused Republicans of waging.

“The White House knows that they can’t run away from health care,” said former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen, a frequent Obama critic. ”Even if the bill remains unpopular as it does, they at least need to rally their core constituency to support it.”

[Rokke]

This article does as good a job as any other I've read explaining what's on the Obama administration's mind with respect to healthcare. It is the whole "war on women" thing that they are trying to pin on Republicans. He's clearly counting on the female vote to put him back in the White House. Maybe it will work. But I just don't see women voting as the same rigid block as some other demographic groups. Let's hope women prove me right.

[NCTexan]

”Even if the bill remains unpopular as it does, they at least need to rally their core constituency to support it.”

 

Yup... he needs his hard core constituency. They're forming up for him right now in Zuccotti Park.

 

The picture of Obama's front line assault troops ready to take on "fly over" America.