Staff for Eric Cantor informs Greg Sargent that the "Dems want to kill jobs and your grandma Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" has been scheduled for next week. (And they are not changing the name, no matter how crass and inflammatory it is after the Giffords shooting.)
Democrats have decided on what they're going to call the Republicans' attempt, according again to Greg: "The Patient's Rights Repeal Act."
Dems are gearing up for a major campaign against repeal, in hopes that it will give them another crack at selling the American public on the law by highlighting its most popular provisions and arguing that repeal would do away with them.
The effort by Dems to hit on a pithy phrase to brand the GOP's repeal effort comes after Republicans have been remarkable successful in their messaging on health care. The two core talking points developed by Republicans -- that health reform is a "job killer" and a "government takeover" -- have both gained amazing media traction in the past two years, despite the fact that "government takeover" earned PolitiFact's "lie of the year" award.
The "Patient's Rights Repeal Act" is certainly not inflammatory, and does lay it out pretty clearly. Though it would have been good to have gotten "Treatment Denying Insurance Company Giveaway Act" into the mix, or as David suggested, the "Baby-Killing Pre-Existing Condition Restoration Act," but as he says, it'll do.