The Hill: What Happened to the New Plan?

The Hill locks onto an aspect of the President’s speech that escaped me during my earlier analysis, which is the expectation that Barack Obama would bring his own plan to Capitol Hill. The White House had told the press last week that Obama would take charge of the debate by offering a new plan that would address many of the concerns raised in the debate and assume leadership of the crusade. What happened to the Obama plan? It turned out to be a no-show:

Oh, please. Dear Leader couldn’t plan his way out of a paper bag. All he did is sit on Santa’s lap with a “Wish List,” while the rest of us are trying to figure out how not to disappoint the dear lad so that he can keep his head up among the other progressive children and live within our means. His own plan — don’t make me laugh.

There was a Republican in the house with a copy of a Republican bill on his lap. On the back was scrawled “WHAT BILL?”

Every time Obama would say “my plan” (which he said a lot), this guy would open his hands and sort of point at the scroll.

Once again BO is talking about “his plan” when there IS no “his plan.”

It's easy to guarantee people that "the plan that I propose..." will not add costs, do granny in, or affect medicare when the only plans being considered (five?) were all proposed by someone else.

What Obama "proposes" does not exist!

It's easy to assure people that no money will be taken away from medicare when the next sentence tells them that medicare outlays will be drastically cut.

Same money, less services = not bankrupt quite so soon while services are either denied or inserted into new "minimum" levels of insurance (new costs).

It's easy to claim bipartisanship when everything the socialists want absolutely MUST be passed and in place by the end of the year but tort reform (not socialist ergo bipartisan) can be dealt with by a limited, small, protracted, test to be run someplace and sometime later.

Maybe.

PS: As for apologizing for calling Zero a liar - every republican attending that goat roping owes me an apology for not walking out.

PPS: If pols on either side want to improve the debate and improve the public concept of governance - drag the duly elected campaign champion off of my TV screen!

He doesn’t have no stinkin’ plan...that would mean thinking and work.

Besides, communists never really know how to run things, they just know how to take the productivity of others and give it to themselves and friends.

Extortionists using guilt tactics to leverage the extraordinary generosity and kindness of average American citizens. This administration and many in congress are rotten to the core.

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