Democrats Take Losing Campaign on the Road

Good luck with this, Nancy:

With the yearlong health care reform fight in Congress ending this week with the passage of the Democrats' legislation, lawmakers face a new battlefront back home in their districts, where they now must justify their "yea" or "nay" vote to their constituents.

Democrats have argued there was a moral imperative to passing the law, to expand coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans in one of the wealthiest nations in the world.

But Republicans counter that the new law will kill jobs and lead to a government takeover of the health care system.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Democratic lawmakers to go on the offensive during the recess.

In a memo to lawmakers, Pelosi said they should "convey the immediate benefits of health reform to your constituents ... demonstrate the work of this Congress to create jobs and strengthen the economy ... (and) publicize the benefits of the $800 billion in tax cuts this Congress has enacted."

"Tell your constituents how all this was done in a fiscally responsible, open, and transparent way," she wrote.

Tell that to the employees of John Deere, Caterpillar, AT&T, and the thousands of other companies that will be taking huge hits because of ObamaCare. Verizon just told its employees that the costs of Obamacare will directly affect their employees. Corporations don't pay these bills, consumers and employees do.

The GOP is not going to sit idly by and allow this misinformation campaign to go unchallenged:

But Republicans disagree.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Congress will have to fix the flaws and mistakes in the health care law in the coming weeks and months.

"It has now become evident to working Americans that the Democratic majority running Washington not only has no plan to help our economy create jobs, but is actually willing to sacrifice millions of them if that's the price to be paid for ensuring that the Left's vision of big-spending big government advances," he wrote in a memo.

"For the American people, the consequences of ObamaCare's enactment will be grave," he continued. "It means fewer jobs and higher taxes. It means fewer doctors and more IRS agents. It means higher health care premiums, and lower quality health care. It means fewer Medicare benefits for seniors, and massive deficits to fund new entitlements. It means taxpayer funding of abortion, and shattered trust between Americans and those entrusted to run their government."

Time for voters to react and do it with great anger. I want these Democrats scared to face the voters in November after facing their wrath at town hall meetings.

Sic 'em.