Beltway conservatives have been warning for weeks that the movement to
defund Obamacare through the upcoming budget debate is a political loser. Even
columnist Charles Krauthammer, often sympathetic to the Tea Party movement,
recently called the move to defund Obamacare a "suicide caucus"
because of the risk that their efforts would force a government shutdown just
as Republicans were gaining an edge on Democrats.
However, a new poll by
Rasmussen indicates that a majority of Americans--51% to 40%--would favor
shutting down the government, at least partially, rather than funding
Obamacare. Americans who now face the prospect of higher insurance costs, fewer
working hours, and the loss of their health coverage or their jobs are willing
to suffer a brief interruption in non-essential government services until those
problems are solved.
In other worse, the conventional wisdom is wrong--at least about the
politics of defunding Obamacare. GOP insiders had subscribed to the left-wing
view that Democrats would benefit from any government shutdown, as they did in
the 1990s. They believed, like NPR's Nina Totenberg, that "all" of
the polling data showed that while people dislike Obamacare, "people don't
want to defund it."
If that were ever true, it is no longer.....To Read More.....
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