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Two months ago, when the first Republicans began talking about trying to “repeal the Health Care Reform bill”, the idea sounded a bit crazy. After all, the bill had just passed Congress with a comfortable margin in the Senate and the sitting President was the bill’s #1 proponent. How could it possibly ever be repealed?

Repeal still seems like a longshot, but not quite as crazy as it did 2 months ago. The latest Rassmussen poll, for example, shows that Americans now favor repeal by an astonishing 2 to 1 margin (63% to 32%).

When Health Care Reform first passed, President Obama confidently predicted a surge in public support as folks learned more about the contents of the legislation. Instead of a surge, he got a bubble and the bubble only lasted a week or two. Since then, as people have begun to digest the bill’s “little noticed” provisions, opposition to the bill has broadened, deepened and hardened.

To paraphrase Speaker Pelosi’s famous quip, “We had to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” And apparently, Americans are not liking what they’re finding.