First they have to give the blue dogs cover so that they can vote the way they want to anyway, which is as George Soros tells them to do. They can accomplish this by stagemanaging sham concessions and crediting it to the stubbornness of one blue dog or another. They can grant a congressman a concession on a House bill and a senator a different concession a different concession on a Senate bill and have both of the measures restored in the final bill but leaving the congressman and senator at a place where they can claim to have resisted with all their might.
I think the public option is dead, although I have no doubt they will seek to resurrect it within a year's time and they may even try to leave it in the bill but camouflaged under a different name.
One of the more discouraging, even frightening, developments of this new administration has been its ability to either co-opt or intimidate our industries, much as Hitler seduced the great industrialists of Germany in 1933, to play along with Obama and his nationalization and socialization of whole sections of the economy. It will be interesting to see whether the insurance companies, for example, sensing weakness see an opportunity now to break from Obama or if they actually increase their support for his reform.
It is frightening to see our institutions, our businesses like General Electric, our media, our watchdogs like AARP, all rollover for this guy.
One last thought, anyone who watched his performance on stage in Colorado simply cannot believe this nonsense about him being incompetent without a Teleprompter. The sooner we conservatives face the reality that the man has presence and charisma, the sooner we will be able to combat him. It should not be surprising that he is good on stage, all he's doing is replaying his act as a traveling salesman for Saul Alinsky.
