When a member of Congress votes for a bill favored by the public and that bill becomes law, it is common for the lawmaker to highlight the law in campaign ads.
So it is very revealing that Democrats in Congress are running from their votes for ObamaCare socialized medicine. In the months since Obama-Care became law, it has remained intensely unpopular among U.S. voters, with polls showing majority support for repeal of the law.
That may be why the Washington newspaper The Politico made this discovery regarding ObamaCare and this year’s congressional campaigns: “[Democratic] party officials in Washington can’t identify a single House member who’s running an ad boasting of a ‘yes’ vote – despite the fact that 219 House Democrats voted in favor of final passage in March. One Democratic strategist said it would be ‘political malfeasance’ to run such an ad now.”
In fact, The Politico reported, “it appears that no Democratic incumbent – in the House or in the Senate – has run a pro-reform TV ad since April, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ran one.”
Can you believe that? Democrats touted ObamaCare as “historic” when it passed early this year. They offered assurances that it would “bend the cost curve” of medical care – something even government officials in Medicare now admit it will not do. ObamaCare was hailed as one of the most important – and supposedly beneficial – laws enacted by Congress in perhaps decades.