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As evidence of a slight rhetorical shift, House Speaker John Boehner abandoned labeling the current health care law as "job killing," and instead called it "job crushing" and "job destroying" in a new message posted on his webpage.

"Repealing the job crushing health care law is critical to boosting small business job creation and growing the economy," Boehner wrote in the post.

Boehner also said "job destroying" in his closing remarks at the GOP retreat Saturday.

After suspending normal business to honor the victims of the Arizona shootings, the House will vote to repeal the health care legislation Wednesday as the GOP's first step toward achieving the "common-sense reforms that will lower health care costs and protect jobs."

Boehner said repealing the legislation will eliminate "job destroying taxes" and cut government spending, paving the way for Congress to pass "common-sense reforms."

"No act of violence is going to keep us from doing our jobs and representing the will of our constituents," Boehner said. "The American people have made it clear they want us to focus on cutting spending and removing barriers to job creation, and repealing the health care law is critical to fulfilling these priorities."

Members of Congress have called for toned-down language and verbal attacks following the shootings in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 13, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. However, even if the repeal passes in the House, similar legislation is unlikely to make it through the Senate or survive a presidential veto.

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A majority of Americans want Congress to keep the new health care law or actually expand it, despite Republican claims that they have a mandate from the people to kill it, according to a new McClatchy Newspapers-Marist poll.

The post-election survey showed that 51 percent of registered voters want to keep the law or change it to do more, while 44 percent want to change it to do less or repeal it altogether.

Driving support for the law: Voters by margins of 2-1 or greater want to keep some of its best-known benefits, such as barring insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. One thing they don't like: the mandate that everyone must buy insurance.

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