Posted on 08/16/2009 8:06:55 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Remember that scene from Star Wars where Princess Lea sends a plea to Obi-Wan Kenobe for help? That's the half-assed Virginian Pilot editorial board bleating a plea for the Mighty "Won" to come to the rescue of the beleaguered Obama health care plan.
Please take a moment to read the editorial Time for leadership on health reform.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Done? Good, let's deconstruct.
The president's error - which has seriously damaged the cause of health care reform - came in ceding responsibility to a Congress that has proven itself consistently incapable of tackling difficult issues.
An interesting observation and one that Rush Limbaugh has been repeating daily: Obama has no health care plan. He has a campaign slogan and he’s good at attacking straw men, but the only “plans” are found in proposed legislation. The one furthest along is the House plan HR 3200 which is over 1000 pages long.
Health care reform was never going to be easy, but the White House's retreat is making it more difficult. In the absence of leadership from President Barack Obama, fear and anger - some of it real, some of it cynical and manufactured - rushed into the void.
Really? You have to give the Virginian Pilot editors credit for belaboring the obvious.
Taking over one-sixth of the nation’s economy was never going to be easy? But it had to be done within the first six months of this administration? Taking responsibility for the health care of 300 million Americans should be done in the virtual twinkling of an eye? The permanent transformation of the role of government to the people in the most intimate parts of their lives needed to be rushed so that Obama could sign a bill by the August recess? ....
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Yes, because its all about him. Why do you think he's on TV EVERY friggin' day?
Did you expect anything different from a man whose preferred vote was “present” ! This guy doesn’t have a clue how to lead and he won’t get out of the way!
Spoken like a man who has OFS (O’Bummer Fatigue Syndrome). I should know - I’m a charter member!
I understand that the cure is a trip to the voting booth, but we need a remedy now!
Liberals ARE the Establishment in our time.
Fight the liberal death machine - fight health care committees...
Stop it! I believe he is the President. If he didn't approve of the bill, couldn't he open his mouth and say so. Wouldn't even have to do it publicly, just call the leaders into his office, tell them to tone it down or he won't sign it.
He can refuse to sign these bills, he can tell them to re-do the bills, but he doesn't. Why? Because he approves of what is in the bills. This stuff is exactly what he wants.
When are the media going to start holding him responsible for the bills he signs?
This bill, which the editors at the Virginian Pilot call a complicated legislative disaster, would have been signed into law by Barack Obama to the acclaim of the media in the largest signing ceremony in recorded history… if it had passed in its present form. Is there any doubt about that? Does anyone anywhere dispute that? The Pilots’ editors were demanding a bill, any bill and telling opponents to shut up and sit down. Barack Obama wanted a bill, any bill; so that he could claim he reformed health care. The fact that the bill would have been a disaster for the American people is simply not important. The success of Oh-be-Won Obama is the issue. It’s all about HIM.
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