Posted on 08/07/2009 5:24:37 AM PDT by markomalley
We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care. There’s a new tone in the debate, and it’s ugly. At the moment the Democrats are looking like something they haven’t looked like in years, and that is: desperate.
They must know at this point they should not have pushed a national health-care plan. A Democratic operative the other day called it “Hillary’s revenge.” When Mrs. Clinton started losing to Barack Obama in the primaries 18 months ago, she began to give new and sharper emphasis to her health-care plan. Mr. Obama responded by talking about his health-care vision. He won. Now he would push what he had been forced to highlight: Health care would be a priority initiative. The net result is falling support for his leadership on the issue, falling personal polls, and the angry town-hall meetings that have electrified YouTube.
In his first five months in office, Mr. Obama had racked up big wins—the stimulus, children’s health insurance, House approval of cap-and-trade. But he stayed too long at the hot table. All the Democrats in Washington did. They overinterpreted the meaning of the 2008 election, and didn’t fully take into account how the great recession changed the national mood and atmosphere.
And so the shock on the faces of Congressmen who’ve faced the grillings back home. And really, their shock is the first thing you see in the videos. They had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context; they thought that in the middle of a historic recession featuring horrific deficits, they could assume support for the invention of a huge new entitlement carrying huge new costs.
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Sometimes it take a hammer blow to the head to awaken them. She’s just catching on that something is “brewing”?
When I saw the headline, I assumed she was berating the tea baggers
Off the de-caf Peg?
It’s ugly threefold:
1) The subject at hand: socialized medicine. Everyone knows it’s the objective even if they are under strict orders not to reveal it.
2) The attempts to stage-manage public forums (fora?).
3) The inevitable portrayal of anti-NHS types as thugs and gatecrashers.
Sorry to say it but the TEA party gang were, for all their good intentions, sitting ducks as the left takes no prisoners.
Like all bullies, they have been caught wrong-footed when their opposition poses a real and immediate threat.
A little buyer’s remorse, Peggy? I will never forgive her for supporting Zero.
> Apparently Noonan is trying to wake up from her hypnosis
Must be... I nearly drifted off to sleep reading that!
She’s jumped the shark.
Evidently and it's about time. I stopped reading her columns months ago.
She’s dead to me.
No she isnt, she still is an idiot.
Everytime I see the name Noonan, I turn the TV off or turn the page. She is nothing but a self-agrandizing elitist who lives off the coattails of Reagan. Sarah Palin is the true feminine patriot that we have left.
I think there are more and more realizing that the left has malignant intentions and will use whatever tactics they can to implement them.
No more “benefit of the doubt” for them.
They have revealed who their ideological “father” is. Hint - Rules for Radicals was dedicated to him.
No thanks, noonan. You’re partly responsible for giving us The One.
By the way, nowadays when I say “noonan”, I do so in the same way that Jerry Seinfeld would greet the despicable “Newman” on his TV show.
Ms.Irrelevant!
Sorry but I stop reading at “Noonan”
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