Only way to make health care 'reform' go away is to keep defeating Democrats

Susan Ferrechio:

President Obama's top adviser and senior Democratic lawmakers on pledged to push forward with health care reform, insisting that the nation still wants legislation despite weakening poll numbers and a Republican win in a Massachusetts election that became a referendum on their proposal.

But White House senior adviser David Axelrod is no longer talking about public insurance programs, mandatory coverage or expansion of care for the poor. Instead, there is a new populist message coming from the White House, one focused on jobs and the economy that will likely be echoed in Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday.

"This president's never going to stop fighting to create jobs, to raise incomes, and to push back on the special interests' dominance in Washington and this withering partisanship that keeps us from solving problems," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week."

Axelrod insisted that Scott Brown's victory over Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the seat long held by Ted Kennedy was not a signal from voters that they reject the $1 trillion Democratic health care proposal.

Axelrod said people still want health care, but they want the proposal to be put together differently.

"The process, eight months of debate, were less than satisfying and that was clear," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week." "And if you look at the polls out of Massachusetts, people reacted as much to the process as anything else. Were there things we could have done there? Perhaps. We have to think that through."

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By process, I take it that he means the sleazy deals Obama and the Democrat leadership made to get the bill through the House and Senate. Those deals certainly hurt Coakley, but there was more to it than that. Fundamentally, voters believe that if the bill were really all that great, there would have not been a need for the "process issues" aka, bribes, in the first place.

By keeping the issue out there, the Democrats are keeping the intensity of the opposition alive too. By continuing their attempt to impose this "change" on people who do not want it, the Democrats are making a gift to the Republicans that would be hard to buy with an unlimited ad budget.