Is it a bug or a feature?
Obama says he won’t campaign for Dems who fail to vote to pass HCR. That may be more of a bug than a feature, more likely to repel “yes” votes than attract them.
Obama has become ballot-box poison—a process that took George Bush six or seven years, but Obama less than one. However, I am still quite pessimistic about the passage of HCR. I believe it will happen. I believe the proper arms will be twisted to the proper degree of pain, a sufficient number of bribes will be offered to sweeten the deal, the requisite threats and enticements and rides on Air Force One will be given, and the bill will pass by the smallest and crookedest margin for any important (and hugely unpopular) piece of legislation in our nation’s history.
And boy, do I hope I’m wrong about the bill’s prospects of passing.
It is govt. takeover of the school loan program also.
http://biggovernment.com/crodgers/2010/03/17/yet-another-government-takeover-student-loan-edition/#more-90490
Yuk
The media always shows how presidents age from the beginning to the end of their reign. Well things ain’t looking so great in my mirror lately. I think it would be interesting if there was actually a study showing how this admin. has adversely affected our health due to the stress and worry over HCR along with all the other outrages that have and will be foisted upon us.
Someone finally caught this! When I first read it my first thought was that this may well kill the bill. He has all the coattails of a … well of something that has no coattails whatsoever! LOL
At this point I think we could solve everyone’s problems with HCR if they simply write “Health Care Reform” on the top of a bill with no content, Obama signs it in a fancy Rose Garden ceremony and everyone acknowledges that President Barack Obama has single handedly gotten it done. The substance and process is so far beyond anything rational that it is clear that that is all Obama remains concerned about — surface level success. What’s the point of passing something in a manner that will, at minimum, be legally challenged for years and, at worst, nullified? Give him his “last place trophy,” tell him he’s a winner and let’s be done with this.
When I heard that Obama was threatening not to campaign for those who voted for the health care bill, I thought of the old southern expression, “Don’t throw me in the briar patch.”
Obama suits another southern expression even better…”That man could tear up a crowbar in a sawdust pile”.
SteveH, what does “That man could tear up a crowbar in a sawdust pile” mean?
Bob, think about it. A crowbar is virtually indestructible. And in a sawdust pile, what are you going to bang it on to even scratch it? Just an old saying about how destructive some people are.
SteveH, my father (also from the South) used to have an expression that is apposite here: “going through life pushing on doors marked ‘pull.'”
The O says campaign but what he means, and what they hear, is fund-raising. He may be poison at the ballot box, at least (so far) in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, but when he gets with some of his really rich faithful where he can sneer and lament that the average American isn’t as intelligent and perceptive as present company he’s a cash cow. A few cocktail parties with people like Geffen and Schmidt and maybe Sean Penn where he can recount some risqué stories that his good bud Hugo Chavez or Daniel Ortega told him and that might be worth 10 million by the end of the evening.
But now this thing has got so bizarre it’s starting to scare the aliens listening in on Radio SETI. If they pass O-Care I believe the only thing that money will accomplish is pad the P&L’s of some ad agencies and media outlets and make some consultants wealthy.
If anyone saw the interview tonight with Brett Brier on Fox, Obama has never come off so peevish, petty and unpresidential. His spin and refusal to answer question were well handled by Brier; he made Obama look like a failed high school debater, and one who was very unhappy about failing. I’ll wager that will be the last time he agrees to an interview on Fox.
I thought Brett Bair (sp?) took it to Obama fair and square. You could tell the Won didn’t much like it. We may have found a replacement for Britt Hume after all.