Grace-Marie Turner writes:

The White House is quietly implementing a shrewd new strategy of silence on Obamacare. Its goal: making sure the revolt against the unpopular health care overhaul that swept Republicans into power across the country in November 2010 isn’t repeated in 2012.

After two years of nonstop focus on health care, the president has stopped talking about the law’s far-reaching effects. Now he is concentrating on a few micro changes. Meanwhile the administration is working hard to dampen controversy by handing out buckets of waivers and attacking Republicans over Medicare. …

Our country’s future will be determined by what happens in 2012. The American people tried to tell Washington in every way they could that they strongly opposed Obamacare–from town hall meetings, marches on Washington, and electing Republicans to office in very blue states, to creation of an entirely new political movement. Washington didn’t listen. Now the White House hopes we will forget.

That’s why it is so crucially important that Obamacare not slip to a second-tier issue in the political debate. The threats to our liberty, our economy, and our future prosperity could not be greater.

Read the whole article: The American Spectator : Obama’s Strategy of Silence.