The battle over the Affordable Care Act – aka Obamcare - threatens to intensify just after Labor Day when Tea Party radicals plan a rally at the House Speaker’s office.
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration is fighting back with a public relations blitz touting the benefits already being enjoyed by Americans – or soon to be implemented.
We blogged about it in detail this morning in HHS Secretary Sibelius touts benefits being implemented
An advisory from the White House Office Of Communications alerted me late Tuesday to the availability of the video published with this story.
Meanwhile, the small but respected Washington D.C. paper The Hill had a different take in Tea Party to rally against ‘BoehnerCare’ over fight to defund healthcare law on Aug. 26.
Lara Seligman writes: “Tea Party activists are planning a rally outside Speaker John Boehner’s (R) Ohio office on Tuesday (Sept. 2), vowing they will rebrand President Obama’s healthcare reform law “BoehnerCare” if he does not get behind a conservative effort to defund the legislation."
On Wednesday, however, the Tea Party and its GOP friends in Congress were dealt a significant blow when a widely respected poll found a majority of Americans oppose defunding the health insurance reform.
The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: August 2013
published on Wednesday reported that a large majority of Americans oppose any plans to defund Obamacare.
Asked the following question:
“Whether or not you like the health care law, would you say you approve or disapprove of cutting off funding as a way to stop some or all of the law from being put into place? – a whopping 57 percent disapproved; that is 21 percentage points greater than the 36 percent who approved.
THIS IS NOT GOOD NEWS for the Republicans in Congress, who face increasing pressure from their right wing radicals.
We can only hope the damage they inflict upon themselves benefits all of us as they fade into obscurity.