Vote Republican in 2014 and Build a Firewall against Obama Socialism and Lies

Karl Rove reminded us this week in the Wall Street Journal that it was 100% Democrat votes that passed the Affordable Care Act - Obamacare - in 2010. Not one Republican voted for Obamacare. And now, the Democrats are going to find Obamacare very hard to defend in the congressional elections of 2014. When he was asked last week how much of a political liability Obamacare will be for Senate Democrats n the midterms, Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid told one of his home state Nevada reporters, "I think it's going to be good for them." Reid puts a brave face on it. But Obamacare remains very unpopular, and the intensity of feeling of its critics is mounting. A Decembr 8 Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that "50% thought the health law was a bad idea - 43% strongly so (7% not strongly)." The survey also reported that "34% thought that Obamacare is a good idea, but only 27% felt so strongly (7% not strongly)." Congressional Democrats seem to defend voting for Obamacare by saying either everything will turn out to be okay eventually (the White House position) or they attack its many website failures while ignoring the real problems of cost, loss of coverage and general degradation of America's private health care system. THE PROBLEM is that either Democratscdidn't know the law would raise premiums, increase deductibles, cancel coverage for millions of families, reduce hours for part-time workers and greatly reduce job creation for small business - all defects that experts and GOP critics often warned about - or they simply didn't care that they were destroying the lives of many millions of Americans. Four Democrat senators running for re-election in 2014 in states where Romney beat. Obama in 2012, and who voted for Obamacare and defended it, are good examples of the Democrat predicament, according to Karl Rove, who cites Alaska Senator Mark Begich, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan and Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor as incumbent Democrat Senators who will have trouble being re-elected. They all used to say things like, "If you've got an insurance plan now, you like it, you keep it." Now they say that Obamacare needs to be "fixed." And, says Rove, it's not just Democratic Senate seats in states that Mitt Romney carried in 2012 that are in danger because of Obamacare : "In 2010, four of the six Senate seats Republicans picked up were in states carried by Mr. Obama in 2008. Mr. Obama will be less popular in such states in 2014 than he was last November - and so will Democrats who have been passive, reliable votes for him." These are Democrat Senators like New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Colorado Senator Mark Udall, Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor and Virginia Senator Mark Warner, who may regret having pledged : "I'm not going to support a health-care reform plan that's going to take away the health care you've got right now." Karl Rove notes that Obamacare will also hurt Democratic congressmen attempting to become Senators. Examples are Iowa's Bruce Braley, who asserted that Obamacare would "allow Americans to maintain their choice of health insurance" and Michigan's Gary Peters, who said "If you're covered and you like your insurance you can keep it." A December 8 Democratic Public Policy Polling survey found that 48% of Michigan voters disapproved of Obamacare while only 34% approved, and 63% thought its implementation unsuccessful. Peters is behind his GOP opponent, 40% to 42%. ~~~~~ Dear readers, these "Obama-Reid-Pelosi lockstep Democrats" are now proclaiming their independence from Obamacare. But when it truly mattered, they never questioned either the President or their Democrat House and Senate leaders. The law exists because congressional Democrats voted for it. Period. The Obamacare vote is over, but the political trouble for Democrats has just begun. As South Carolina's GOP Senator Lindsey Graham likes to say, Obamacare is a gift to the GOP from the Democrats and "it is a gift that just keeps on giving." Watch these Democrat Senators and House members as they rev-up their 2014 re-election campaigns because these are the incumbents whose loss will make Congress Republican leading up to rhe 2016 presidential campaign. Even more important, their losses will give America a protective firewall against the dangerously naive and deliberately socialist/ anti-American efforts of Barack Obama and his White House.