Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico on President Obama, ObamaCare, and the budget impasse:
“You reap what you sow,” said Whit Ayres, the veteran Republican pollster. “When you force through a major and very significant change to our economy, and you do it on a pure party-line vote, and at the very end change the rules to cram it through, you simply set up a long-term political battle that will never end.”
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For his part, Obama would be entitled to think that the Republicans’ attempt to repeal or delay his signature initiative through the back-door means of a budget resolution to keep the government running is unreasonable. Indeed, GOP pollster Ayres notes that his surveys show that “shutting down the government is the one way to change Obamacare into a negative political issue for the Republicans.” Asked why the tea party insisted on such tactics, he replied, “You’ll have to ask them. They’re obviously not persuaded by the available data.”
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