Axelrod’s ‘New’ Transparency
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When it comes to misreading the message from Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, presidential advisor David Axelrod takes the cake.
Axelrod discussing health care legislation on ABC’s This Week yesterday with ABC anchor Terry Moran: “People will never know what’s in that bill until we pass it”:
AXELROD: Terry, again, I think you’re misreading the Massachusetts poll. I think people want action on health care. In fact, the bill that the House and the Senate passed, which are largely the same in the main, were patterned in many ways on the Massachusetts health care plan, which is a unique plan in that state. And 68 percent of the people who voted last week said they liked the Massachusetts plan. Senator Brown said he wouldn’t change it.So I think you’re misreading the results out of Massachusetts. The president will not walk away from the American people, will not hand them over to the tender mercies of health insurance companies who — who take advantage. He will not walk away from people with pre-existing conditions. He will not walk away from senior citizens in Medicare. He’s just not going to do that.
And let me tell you, as a political matter, the foolish thing to do would be for anybody else who supported this to walk away from it, because what’s happened is, this thing’s been defined by insurance company — insurance industry propaganda, the propaganda of the opponents, and an admittedly messy process leading up to it.
But the underlying elements of it are popular and important. And people will never know what’s in that bill until we pass it, the president signs it, and they have a whole range of new protections they never had before.
Stay with the same far-left agenda and lack of transparency? Does he really believe this bullshit? That’s mind numbing naivety!
You can bet your bottom dollar that Republicans are hoping and praying that the Democrats follow Axelrod’s advice. It’s a sure ticket to disaster for the Democrats in 2010, which is not to say that the Republicans themselves fully got the real message from Massachusetts.
H/t - Jacob Sullum
