ObamaCare's PR Levies Have Breached

Dallas' top Democratic donors will cut big checks to share dinner later this month with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Most will be motivated by a desire to protect the party's congressional majority.

Lisa Blue will have an extra reason: to say thanks for Pelosi's efforts when her husband, Fred Baron, was dying of bone marrow cancer. His only option was an experimental drug whose manufacturer refused to give permission to use it for Baron's condition.

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A prolific Democratic fundraiser, he served as finance chief that year for his friend John Edwards, who also made his fortune in court. Baron later acknowledged funneling large sums to Edwards' mistress – a scandal that gave ammunition to those who already despised trial lawyers.

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Somehow – Blue still isn't sure how – Pelosi cajoled the FDA to find a legal justification that let Mayo administer the drug, even without Biogen's consent.

"Nancy figured out a way," she said.

The drug beat back the cancer for a few days, but not enough.

Blue has no illusion that a typical family could pull such strings.

"There are so many cases like Fred's," she said. "One thing he taught me was politics matters. What a personal experience for me to understand how politics matters."

"Politics matters"  Politics matters.  Indeed it does matter, Lisa, but not in the way you think.  It matters not because your husband happened to bring the rain on the side of the crooks, tyrants, and death panelists, and therefore was deemed worthy of life-saving efforts due solely to his political connections; that only underscores how powerfully he deserved to perish in agony.  Politics matters because it takes a free AND VIGILANT people to keep far, far away from power animalistic, power-mad despots who lust after domestic conquest so they can condemn to misery, suffering, and death the vast masses they deceived into believing they were getting "for free" what they would inevitably be denied in favor of those for whom "Nancy [will] figure out a way".

One little bug, however: The vast masses are not deceived.  They weren't during the O-Care war, they weren't when it was rammed down their throats anyway, and they haven't been in the five months since.  The only ones who have been deceived are those that "matter," and this of their own efforts to convince themselves that what they did to Us, The People, would eventually be rewarded with enthusiastic, heartfelt gratitude.

Maybe Missouri Prop C was the final straw.  Whichever the case, Democrat campaign strategists are (brace yourselves) finally acknowledging that ObamaCare is hugely unpopular.  Because it's been in so much doubt up until now.

Does this mean that Donks are going to get out in front of the repeal bandwagon and compete with the Republicans for that MAJORITY OF THE ELECTORATE?  Well, um, no.  Does it mean that they're going to pretend that ObamaCare does not and never existed and talk about ANYTHING else?  Er, ah, no.  Does that mean that they're going to resume their June 2009-March 2010 tone-deaf, humming-with-fingers-in-the-ears sales pitch that was so smashingly successful at putting over "health care reform" as the single most popular item since the chastity belt?

YES...THEY...WILL!:

Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to “improve it.”…

The confidential presentation, available in full here and provided to POLITICO by a source on the call, suggests that Democrats are acknowledging the failure of their predictions that the health care legislation would grow more popular after its passage, as its benefits became clear and rhetoric cooled. Instead, the presentation is designed to win over a skeptical public, and to defend the legislation — and in particular the individual mandate — from a push for repeal…

The presentation also concedes that the fiscal and economic arguments that were the White House’s first and most aggressive sales pitch have essentially failed…

The presentation’s final page of “Don’ts” counsels against claiming “the law will reduce costs and deficit.”

What the public will hear: "The ObamaCare death march ISN'T OVER YET, and by the way, all our promises of cost and deficit reduction were pure, undiluted, Grade A, 100%, USDA-approved bullshit.  So vote for us so we can 'improve' it EVEN MORE!"