Communications

They have been trying this sales pitch with health care for over a year now.

The White House has been insistent that a government takeover of the U.S. health care system is essential to our collective and individual economic security.

Now we read that the president intends to rebrand his job-killing climate change initiative by selling it too as part of his job creation agenda. 

The Democrats can read the polls. They see that the economy ranks as the top concern among voters. What they seem to be missing is the fact that selling their health care plan as essential to the health of our fiscal future has not improved the public’s opinion of it.

The American people didn’t buy this reasoning with health care and they are unlikely to see an economic agenda centered on creating “green jobs” any differently.

Besides, as the media has so helpfully pointed out, we have seen this before, very recently in fact: