Obamacare Goes Primetime by Robert Costa on National Review Online: "For Republicans, August was a dream — Obamacare sinking by the day, angry protestors confronting befuddled or insulting Democratic politicians, Obama’s poll numbers sagging. But the calendar inevitably turns, and it’s on to September.
This week, the president’s team signaled that it might finally be ready to shift away from Obamacare’s current malignant incarnation. Maybe. They have mentioned no details, but David Axelrod and others are whispering to the media that on September 9, when President Obama makes his next major health-care policy speech to a joint session of Congress, things will start to move toward the center. We’ve heard this tune before.
Just what do Republicans make of this latest twist in Obama’s message? Their strategists are heartened by the course of the debate so far but doubt Obama will go far enough in jettisoning his current approach. Nonetheless, they still see potential peril.
“Axelrod’s not stupid,” a former GOP official who wished not to be identified tells NRO. “They’re recalibrating to salvage a political win. The White House misjudged their audience. They campaigned to the public for the last six months when their audience is Congress. It’s a classic mistake of a new White House."
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