Posted on 07/30/2009 6:05:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead.
If you believed the first idiocy — and half the mainstream media did — you'll believe the second. Don't believe either.
Conventional wisdom always makes straight-line projections. They are always wrong.
Yes, Obama's aura has diminished, in part because of overweening overexposure. But by year's end he will emerge with something he can call health care reform.
The Democrats in Congress will pass it because they must. Otherwise, they'll have slain their own savior in his first year in office.
But that bill will look nothing like the massive reform Obama originally intended. The beginning of the retreat was signaled by Obama's curious reference — made five times — to "health-insurance reform" in his July 22 news conference.
Reforming the health care system is dead. Cause of death? Blunt trauma administered not by Republicans, not even by Blue Dog Democrats, but by the green eyeshades at the Congressional Budget Office.
Three blows:
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
An advance to the rear?
Anyone who is represented by a Blue Dog Democrat had better burn up their phone lines, camp in their front yards, picket their offices...whatever it takes to make them very damned nervous during the break. They’re going to have to choose - listen to Pelosi or their constituents.
I am glad I am American,
I am glad that I am free.
But I wish I was a dog ...
And Obama was a tree.
Is there a good place to find out the names of all the Congress people? I’m going to call as many as I can and tell them if they support it I will make sure they do not win the next election.
In the military we call it a ‘retrograde’.
But Sarah Palin's tactical decision to extricate herself from the unending series of bogus ethical charges is quitting that will forever doom her political career.
Call me confused about your rationale.
Excellent read
I guess Obama doesn’t have a Napoleonic case of hemorrhoids?
Thank you.
I have a new grandbaby at last and it’s a girl. I remember your new grandson.
Prescient!
Congratulations. That is wonderful
Another wonderful site with great information is the American Association of Physicians & Surgeons, whose opposition to socialized medicine has been ongoing for many years. Visit it here
From there, there are links to other sites and to upcoming events, including this one, pertaining to this weekend.
SOME form of this is almost certain to pass. There is absolutely no way that such a whompin majority in Congress is going to turn tail in defeat. It would be too much of a symbolic defeat.
At the same time, the nature of these bills is that they are written by aides and not read by our reps. And so all manner of stealthy mischief can be snuck into such a necessarily complex bill.
I will not believe it has been defeated in this horrible, larval form until after the 2010 elections. Even then, no doubt, should a Repub majority emerge after those elections, watch. It will then become a Republican cause celebre.
This should be an interest to you. Seems the deathcare is out...and insurance reform will take its place.
Read this...
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