Most Significant Legislation Ever…?
Appearing on the Daily Show last night, President Obama defended the health care law by claiming that “most people would say [it] is as significant a piece of legislation as we have seen in this country’s history.”
If that’s the case, and the health care law is the most significant bill ever enacted into law:
- Why did the President feel the need to follow up that exchange with a promise to “continue to make progress?”
- Why did the President previously claim the legislation was a “middle of the road bill?”
- Why have Democrats in Congress refused to hold hearings on it?
- Why do a plurality (48%) of voters intending to support Democrats in the midterm elections believe the law “won’t make much difference” to the economy, according to a Harvard survey cited in a New England Journal of Medicine article published yesterday?
- Why are House Democrats running ads admitting they’ve “disappointed” voters on things like the health care measure?