G.O.P. Maps Out Waves of Attacks Over Health Law

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Representative Eric Cantor helped issue a “House Republican Playbook” with “messaging tools” to attack the health care law.

WASHINGTON — The memo distributed to House Republicans this week was concise and blunt, listing talking points and marching orders: “Because of Obamacare, I Lost My Insurance.” “Obamacare Increases Health Care Costs.” “The Exchanges May Not Be Secure, Putting Personal Information at Risk.” “Continue Collecting Constituent Stories.”

The document, the product of a series of closed-door strategy sessions that began in mid-October, is part of an increasingly organized Republican attack on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature legislative initiative. Republican strategists say that over the next several months, they intend to keep Democrats on their heels through a multilayered, sequenced assault.

The idea is to gather stories of people affected by the health care law — through social media, letters from constituents, or meetings during visits back home — and use them to open a line of attack, keep it going until it enters the public discourse and forces a response, then quickly pivot to the next topic.

For a House more used to disarray than methodical game plans, the success so far has been something of a surprise, even to the campaign’s organizers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/us/politics/gop-maps-out-waves-of-attacks-over-health-law.html?pagewanted=print

[BigPaul25]

1. It's my hope

That the website will be fixed, and the nation can see how effective the ACA is before election season next year.

[Mass]

2. This is a sign of the weakness of the GOP caucus. They can only agree

on attacking Obama.

[TwilightGardener]

3. It only works if the media takes the ball and carries it down the field for them.

But whatever you do, GOP, make sure to spend exactly zero time doing your jobs, helping people or solving problems. Just keep playing political games.

[Loudly]

4. If Democrats would simply take up the cause of Medicare for All

they could immunize themselves against this strategy and put Republicans back on their own heels.

Yeah GOP, insurance companies are gouging the American People.

Let's make them compete with the premium, deductible and uniformity of Medicare for all.