Via Weekly Standard:
As the implementation of Obamacare sent Democratic poll numbers plummeting in recent months, party leaders responded with an Obamacare message they hope will spare their candidates from the wrath of voters in 2014: Mend it, don’t end it.
“I think what most Americans want us to do is not repeal Obamacare, which is what our Republican colleagues are focused on, but fix it,” Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said during a December 22 appearance on Meet the Press. “The president is working to fix it; we are working in the Senate to fix it; we urge our Republican colleagues to join us in fixing it.” […]
One Democratic senator tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that plans to fix Obamacare haven’t even been discussed at weekly Democratic Senate caucus meetings. “Never talked about it in the caucus,” Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont said on Tuesday. “But I would note just a generality: It’s difficult to get a consensus on fixing when the other side simply says, ‘Repeal it all–all-or-nothing.'”