Posted on 08/31/2009 8:13:42 AM PDT by Rufus2007
Who needs to make health care Barack Obama's Waterloo, as Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. suggested? Why not make it the president's Alamo?
That's the advice PBS host Bill Moyers had for President Barack Obama in an appearance on HBO's August 28 "Real Time with Bill Maher." According to the former press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson, a defeat on health care/health insurance reform would do the left more good than crafting some sort of compromise.
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PBS need to fire this guy. Let’s stop pretending that “public” broadcasting is anything other than leftwing propaganda.
I used to give money to these people, but stopped when they started to run down Reagan in the eighties. Why did they stop being politically neutral?
Liberalthink at it’s finest. Black is white, up is down, lies are truth and losing is winning.
What is it about hard-core lefties that makes them throw away a lifetime of achievement and credibility as they get older?
>> Why not make it the president’s Alamo?
That’s fine by me! As long as that means that every single last one of the ‘Rats in the administration and congress goes down to defeat, just like the defenders of the Alamo all died.
Tell you what: in the saga of the real Alamo, the victory wasn’t at the Alamo. That was a huge defeat.
The victory came for the Texans later, because right and justice were on their side. But that WON’T happen for the ‘Rats. Because they’ll still be RATS (not Texans).
Moyers is dreaming.
The Democrats have overwhelming control of Congress and they occupy the WH. They can pass anything they want. The Reps can’t stop them. The “problem” is the Dems themselves. How will a defeat energize the Dem base?
“Why did they stop being politically neutral?”
Because all things ‘public’ eventually get taken over by those on the left. It’s the venue that lets them feel best about themselves.
ex animo
davidfarrar
The Mexicans defeated the Texans at the Alamo. If ObamaCare goes down in flames, it will be his fellow Democrats. Using the Alamo analogy, it would be like the Texans defeating themselves without the Mexicans being involved.
I thought about stopping at about the same time when it seemed that every news article was slanted to decry the painful situation of the modern female-American.
All that whining got on my nerves.
But the final straw came during one of their fund-railing drives when they dissed John Philp Sousa.
That did it!
I called up their donation line and told them why I was topping my contributions.
I don't think they cared.
Moyer been an extremist Leftist his whole life. He has zero credibility and achievements. Unless being a unless parasite living off taxpayers his whole life is "an achievement"
He is right. If they pass health care, ANY kind of health care, two things will happen.
First, those who were single-issue voters supporting health care will be “satisfied”, and won’t come out to vote, while those who hate the ObamaCare and want to stop it will be motivated to come out and vote. The worst thing for a politician is to lose an issue, especially if the issue is phony.
Second, it won’t work, so a lot of people who liked the idea will be upset and be motivated to come out and vote. If they compromise, those most supportive will assume the compromise broke it, and be mad at them. If they don’t compromise, everybody will know who broke health care and vote accordingly.
It’s why I think Reid is upset at so much media support for the “reconciliation” strategy. Without that, he can hold vote after vote, get his majority, but not pass anything — and then he can blame republicans.
But if reconciliation becomes “acceptable”, he’ll be castigated by his own side if he doesn’t use it — and he knows that passing this bill is the worst thing they could do for his re-election chances.
Stuck on spin cycle.
Out the Socialists and let them try to spin that.
>> If ObamaCare goes down in flames, it will be his fellow Democrats. Using the Alamo analogy, it would be like the Texans defeating themselves without the Mexicans being involved.
If you don’t object, I’d rather think of it as an angry horde of us Conservxicans kicking their butt from outside the walls, while (unlike in the real Alamo) the ‘Ratxans inside the walls are stabbing each other in the back with Bowie knives. :-)
Why did they stop being politically neutral? = Government funding.
Dems are looking for an ObamaCare exit strategy and Moyers is trying to help.
“Why not make it the president’s Alamo? “
interesting because one reason obamacare is going down is because people are concerned their healthcare will be rationed in favor of young illegals from mexico.
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