Posted on 09/04/2009 7:23:47 AM PDT by markomalley
For Republicans, August was a dream — Obamacare sinking by the day, angry protestors confronting befuddled or insulting Democratic politicians, Obama’s poll numbers sagging. But the calendar inevitably turns, and it’s on to September.
This week, the president’s team signaled that it might finally be ready to shift away from Obamacare’s current malignant incarnation. Maybe. They have mentioned no details, but David Axelrod and others are whispering to the media that on September 9, when President Obama makes his next major health-care policy speech to a joint session of Congress, things will start to move toward the center. We’ve heard this tune before.
Just what do Republicans make of this latest twist in Obama’s message? Their strategists are heartened by the course of the debate so far but doubt Obama will go far enough in jettisoning his current approach. Still they still see potential peril.
“Axelrod’s not stupid,” a former GOP official who wished not to be identified tells NRO. “They’re recalibrating to salvage a political win. The White House misjudged their audience. They campaigned to the public for the last six months when their audience is Congress. It’s a classic mistake of a new White House. Reagan didn’t make that mistake on tax cuts, his signature issue early in his first term. As a popular new president he spent his points charming Tip O’Neill and personally working the moderate Democrats and built a majority to pass his top priority. Reagan’s people got it. Obama’s people are in campaign mode. They need to learn it’s not about the TelePrompTer, it is about the one-on-one with the members of Congress.”
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Don’t believe for a second BO is giving up on socialist health care. He’s trying to find another way to repackage the same product.
Latest I heard was the word “trigger” - by which the public option would be triggered automatically if silly liberal cost measures are not met. (Has a lib EVER met a cost estimate?) This was forewarned by talk show hosts yesterday eve and parroted by all the MSM today (typical lib talking points for the day).
As is usual with libs, the trigger is simply a means by which they can screw us automatically - without having to expose themselves to blame when the screw job occurs.
If we fall for this, we deserve what we get.
Obama will NEVER abandon the public option. It will be renamed, morphed, hidden, triggered, delayed or whatever. But it will not be abandoned.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, the fourth-ranked Republican in the House, on what Republicans must not compromise away:
“Our liberty is from God, not the government. Our sovereignty is in our souls, not the soil. Our security is from strength, not surrender. Our prosperity is from the private sector, not the public sector. And our truths are self evident, not relative.”
What’s amazing is the Democrats discuss the “no public option” cave while openly mentioning that there will be clauses that ‘trigger’ the public option later. And I keep waiting for outcry combined with mocking laughter and derision coming from the Republicans, and I have yet to hear it.
Seriously, they ALL go in 2010. Every one, on both sides of the aisle need to be removed and tried for treason. I’ll bring the rope.
The GOP needs to stand firm and stand up to the Islamo-marxist. We need to have a full court press to vote out Hairy Reid and a key stinking RINO like Juan McCain.
The problem for Barry is that he has already lost the battle...he just doesn’t know it yet.
Ok, here’s the dilemma - watch the damn speech in Congress and hope the Repubs grow a pair and “town hall” him down or do the usual ignore it and have fellow Freepers take it for the team and report afterward....?
Mr. President,
Keep your laws off my BODY!
Was it really a strategic miscalculation?
Or did they just let Pelosi present a super-radical bill to frighten the people so much they would expend all their energy & political capital fighting it & then be relieved to get a semi-radical bill with still-radical triggers built-in for later deployment which a 'chastened' & newly 'moderate' POTUS would be able to present to the people as a 'reasonable compromise'.
Heck, if I were a radical seeking to accomplish the forcible takeover of a major segment of my country's private sector with a fearful, reticent electorate, that's surely how I'd try go about it.
PelosiObamaReidCare.
“Squeezing the life out of citizens for the health of the government”
“Feeling sick? Take two months and the IRS will call you in the morning”
PelosiObamaReidCare:
“If Mr. Citizen doesn’t want to take his medication orally, I’m sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don’t think that he would like it.” - Nurse Ratched
The Democrats do not need a single Rep vote to pass their agenda. The idea that the Reps have any power in this kabuki dance is nonsense. The Dems want just a few Reps to cross the line so they can call it a bipartisan bill. Any Rep who does should be drummed out of the party.
It sure wasn’t the GOP leadership that changed things.
These people are Marxists....the end game is a coup.
“For Republicans, August was a dream...”
August should have been a wake up call for republican elected officials. People are revolting against BIG GOVERNMENT, both parties included. They would be wise to not look at August as a victory for them.
The GOP Kowtow sounds like the step that could win Tom Delay a championship on Dancing With the Stars....
I expect this speech to bomb. People are already weary of Bam’s act, and stuff like the Sept. 8 schools speech and L’Affaire Van Jones keep proving he just can’t get out of his own way.
A Doctor’s Plan for Legal Industry Reform [An awesome criticism/parody of Obamacare!]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574387021307651050.html
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