{"id":17683,"date":"2013-04-12T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2013-04-12T13:28:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:28:35","slug":"obamacare-crack-up-looms-as-next-gop-messaging-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17683\/obamacare-crack-up-looms-as-next-gop-messaging-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Crack-up Looms as Next GOP Messaging Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t look now, but with ObamaCare failing to deliver on its promises<\/a> before it even takes effect, Democrats are already starting to lay the blame<\/a> on the one party least responsible for this policy monstrosity: Republicans.<\/p>\n

Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services and the point person for ObamaCare\u2019s implementation, told a Harvard School of Public Health audience that instead of saying, \u201clet\u2019s get on board, let\u2019s make this work,\u201d Republican opponents coerced her into fighting \u201cstate-by-state political battles.\u201d Sebelius complained, \u201cThe politics has been relentless,\u201d according to Investor\u2019s Business Daily.<\/p>\n

This from the woman whose refusal to honor the conscience rights of religious employers elevates the right to \u201cfree\u201d contraception over the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

But just because Sebelius\u2019 charge that ObamaCare\u2019s completely foreseen failure is actually Republicans\u2019 fault is laughable to anyone who knows the facts, don\u2019t assume that the GOP communications apparatus can be counted on to frame those facts effectively.<\/p>\n

After all, this is the same universe of consultants and staff that got outmaneuvered last election season on liberal talking points like the GOP\u2019s \u201cWar on Women,\u201d and Mitt Romney\u2019s \u201c47 percent\u201d comment.<\/p>\n

If the Left wants to present Sandra Fluke<\/a> and \u201cThe Life of Julia<\/a>\u201d as exemplars of modern feminism, why can\u2019t the Right counter with the common sense observation that what liberals really want is a government sugar-daddy who pays for sex and then subsidizes any consequences thereafter?<\/p>\n

And rather than deny that 47 percent of Americans don\u2019t pay federal income taxes, why don\u2019t Republicans instead hit back with the explosive growth of food stamps<\/a> and the unprecedented extension of unemployment benefits in the Age of Obama?\u00a0 Throw in the Obama Phone mentality<\/a>, and people will start to understand that there are real costs to the liberal vision of welfare.<\/p>\n

All this to say I hope Republicans have learned their lesson about how to contest Democratic smear campaigns.\u00a0 It would be a shame if when ObamaCare comes off the rails next year the GOP fails to capitalize electorally because no one clearly makes the case that only liberals are to blame for the mess they created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t look now, but with ObamaCare failing to deliver on its promises before it even takes effect, Democrats are already starting to lay the blame on the one party least responsible for this policy monstrosity: Republicans. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services and the point person for ObamaCare\u2019s implementation, told a Harvard School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,143,3546,615,3308,476,35,1784,18,3815],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-barack-obama","tag-food-stamps","tag-gop","tag-health","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-obamacare","tag-republican","tag-unemployment","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17691,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/17691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}