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"      Every thinking American who ever had sinus trouble knew that the American health-care system was simply dying from hunger. The president decided that, hell&amp;#039;s bells, somebody ought to do something about that. So he set out to do so. He made some mistakes along the way -- big and small. The biggest mistake was his mysterious belief that his political opposition was in some ways sane and in any way reasonable. This, the political opposition demonstrated, repeatedly, was not the case. It was not as though the opposition was defending the status quo. It was more that they didn&amp;#039;t want anything to change. Got it? Against all this pushback, the president managed to cobble together a plan -- mainly from spare parts, and old lengths of garden hose, left over from previous attempts to reform the American health-care system from both sides of the aisle. This plan got enough votes to pass the Congress. The president signed it. For the first time in decades, we actually had a law to follow so, naturally. Democracy being what it is, we all agree to conform to it, right? Silly Americans. If it&amp;#039;s not senators knuckling professional sports leagues, or congressional vandals on a spree, or dimwit governors declining Free Money (!), it&amp;#039;s the money-stuffed alternate power bases of American conservatism, the ones that are beyond anyone&amp;#039;s control, not that anyone on that side wants to control them, developing their own oligarch&amp;#039;s interpretation of the doctrine of nullification, with elected Republicans simply coming along in tow. (If you&amp;#039;re looking for the classic nullification model, look to what they&amp;#039;re trying to do in Missouri with guns. As the late Miss Ivins once put it, old dogs still hunt.) Republicans have staked much of their near-term political success on the bet that the health care overhaul will be unpopular with Americans as it is implemented in a process that they have warned will be chaotic and frustrating. Many Republicans in Congress have said they would push to repeal the law. (Ed Note: C&amp;#039;mon, Times. Live in the real world. &amp;quot;Many Republicans in Congress&amp;quot; actually have voted to repeal this law 37 freaking times.) So far, the persistent criticism of the law has served the party well with its base. Now, Republicans hope it will resonate with swing voters the party needs to recover from its losses last year. In a significant strategic shift, Americans for Prosperity is carefully aiming its new campaign at one of those voting blocs: young women. &amp;quot;How do I know my family is going to get the care they need?&amp;quot; asks a young mother of two who stars in a commercial, the first in a series that Americans for Prosperity plans to expand to as many as seven states. &amp;quot;Can I really trust the folks in Washington with my family&amp;#039;s health care?&amp;quot; This, we should note, is exactly the &amp;quot;strategic shift&amp;quot; that was rejected in the Congress, and that was rejected in the last presidential election. The only difference now is that there is more private, corporate money behind its ultimate goal, which is to demolish the rule of any law of which the Kochs do not approve. Conservatives see the fight over the health care law as the defining political debate of the day. They believe it presents them with a rare opportunity to call the president&amp;#039;s leadership into question and raise doubts about the effects of his signature domestic policy achievement. When Americans for Prosperity wrote the script for its new campaign, which Mr. Phillips described as an effort to &amp;quot;start softening the ground&amp;quot; ahead of the health care law&amp;#039;s implementation, the group wanted to avoid any personal attacks on the president. (The script mentions Mr. Obama&amp;#039;s name only in the context of &amp;quot;Obamacare,&amp;quot; for example.) Mr. Phillips said Americans for Prosperity tried to learn from the mistakes that conservative groups like his and the Romney campaign made in attacking the president last year. Does AFP have a plan of its own? Of course. Obamacare is bad because of IRS and Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! It is important for every progressive to know that no victory ever will be a permanent one. There&amp;#039;s too much money unleashed on the other side. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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