As proud as the Democrats appear to be of their single-handed accomplishment, and boasting that, yes, they will most definitely be able to very proudly run on it come this November, I’m sure who it is that they are working so hard to convince. Because despite all of their spin they don’t seem to be having much luck in convincing all that many people that this creation of theirs is the boon that they all said it would be. At least if a new poll that rates public opposition to Obamacare now at an all-time high can be trusted.
Because it’s according to the numbers taken from a recent USA Today/Pew survey that 55 percent of the American people still say that they disapprove of this boondoggle. And that is the highest total since this debacle referred to as Obamacare was shoved through Congress and onto Barry who signed it into law back in 2010. Also according to this poll we now seem to have 41 percent who can bring themselves to say that they actually support it. Those must be the Obama-phone crowd.
And we also learned from this poll that 49 percent of those surveyed seem to be of the opinion that the major provisions of Obamacare are most likely "here to stay," while 43 percent think they will be erased from the law. Also it was 67 percent of those people who support the law think its major provisions are "here to stay." Personally, I’d like to see the whole thing scrapped, because I think most of us can agree that creating Obamacare had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with attempting to control the cost of healthcare.
With Barry & Co. making the claim that more than 8 million Americans signed up for healthcare through the law from October to the middle of April, a Gallup-Healthways report showed that the ‘estimated’ percentage of Americans without healthcare, 13.4 percent, is supposedly the lowest since that statistic first began being tracked back in 2008. But with public support for Obamacare pretty much teetering on the edge there remains little doubt that healthcare will be a key issue in the midterm elections.
Now if we can believe Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, which I don’t for a second, he said, "Obviously, Republicans don't like Obamacare, which is not surprising since not a single Republican voted for it." He then went on to say, "But much more importantly, independent voters — the swing voters, those that go back and forth and decide every election — also don't like Obamacare." He added, "For them, it's going to be a big, if not the decisive, issue in how they cast their vote this fall." He’s probably right.
Now the way I see it, the Republicans, should they take control of the Senate and keep control of the House, will have a very short window of opportunity, two short years, to demonstrate that they are serious about making substantive changes not only to Obamacare, but to a whole host of issues. If they choose not to, deciding to simply coast while providing nothing but lip service, then their time in power will be very short lived, coming to end in both houses in 2016. This will be their time to either shit, or to get off the pot.
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