Democrat Re-Election Strategy: Run On Obamacare

All the major polls are showing majority opposition to Obamacare. To pass this unpopular load of crap Democrats have had to bribe and coerce Senators and Representatives around the country into betraying their constituents on this issue.
And now they think they’re going to ride it to re-election?

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been telling Democrats a win on the health issue will reverse the slide in public opinion, just as passage of another controversial proposal, the North American Free Trade Agreement, lifted President Bill Clinton in the polls…
“The reality, I think, will trump poll numbers in the dead of winter as this debate is going on,” White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”…
“If Democrats want to run on this, then we invite them to go ahead and do so. The Obama-Pelosi agenda continues to feed into the emerging 2010 narrative that this is a Congress that spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much,” Ken Spain, communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Sunday…
The Democratic leadership is particularly relying on a health victory as other domestic priorities struggle. The failure of the United Nations climate summit to reach a binding accord could cripple Mr. Obama’s chances of securing legislation to limit greenhouse-gas emissions, even after many House Democrats took a politically painful vote for legislation to cap carbon emissions.

Well, at least this is a marginally better strategy than the whole “blame Bush” thing. Trying to spin something they’ve done into a positive is somewhat more honest and believable than trying to blame everything they’ve done since coming into office on the guy who was in office before.