The White House has announced that Democratic communications specialist Stephanie Cutter has been named an assistant to the president for special projects. The most special project Cutter will work on, according to the White House, is “the communications and outreach strategy for the implementation of the landmark health insurance reform legislation.”
That’s going to be quite a job. The RealClearPolitics average of polls on the question of health care shows the public disapproves of the bill passed by congressional Democrats and signed by President Obama by a margin of 53 percent to 40 percent. No poll taken since the bill passed has shown a majority, or even a plurality, of Americans approving of it, and at this point opposition seems to have settled into a clear pattern. Moreover, Americans disapprove of the job Obama is doing on the issue of health care; the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll had the numbers at 51 percent disapprove to 41 percent approve.
