Posted on 09/02/2009 10:45:34 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Did Barack Obama learn a lesson from Bill Clinton on triangulation? Politico reports that the President will pivot on the “public option” in ObamaCare and take on the left wing of his party. Obama senses an opportunity to gain credibility as a moderate, but that will hardly help Obama in the polls:
Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess. And although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it himself, the officials said.
“We’re entering a new season,” senior adviser David Axelrod said in a telephone interview. “It’s time to synthesize and harmonize these strands and get this done. We’re confident that we can do that. But obviously it is a different phase. We’re going to approach it in a different way. The president is going to be very active.” …
On health care, Obama’s willingness to forgo the public option is sure to anger his party’s liberal base. But some administration officials welcome a showdown with liberal lawmakers if they argue they would rather have no health care law than an incremental one. The confrontation would allow Obama to show he is willing to stare down his own party to get things done.
Obama’s problem will be not just defying his own party base, but … his own words, such as this from just three months ago:
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Cool move! Then he can alienate the almosr 30% of people srill bitter clinging to him.
I predict that in order to “drop” the public option the bill will grow to 2 thousand pages.
The art of compromise is lost on the Dems!
They continually move the goal posts!
We need to encourage the progressives to hand firm on this, Is this what they worked themselves to death for last fall? a lame reform bill written by the Blue Dogs? MSNBC single payer Ed Schulz says public plan, or no bill! GO ED!
bill clinton was a southern democrat so triangulation was always his thing. Obama will just look like he doesn’t have a clue.
There's one campaign promise fulfilled eh? Being the most transparent admin in history. No doubt... we see right through you.
they fought bush for 8 years and all they got were more bailouts for wall street and some bike roads.
Yeah, that’ll work. After insisting on it...he is gonna have a “come to Jesus” moment.
What a pant load.
Hussein is a liar. A bad liar.
We've come too far and gained too much momentum for our efforts to fail over disagreement on one single issue," the Senator and one-time HHS Secretary nominee said, according to ABC News.
The remarks came after Dashcle, along with former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Howard Baker introduced his own proposal for health care reform. That plan actually included a version of a government-run option. The Daschle proposal calls for (among other things) public insurance pools to be administered by state government, not the feds.
Let the post turtle try it. Obama already played “moderate” in the campaign and then showed his red underbelly. The main of Americans will not be fooled again.
LOL, You got it. To have fun its time to post those kind of messages at our progressive friends websites, keep them motivated, while we threaten to kick out the Blue Dogs if they make a deal with the libs.
Its a dem civil war, they need our support. Ever see or read King’s “Needful things” ??
Obama is such a tool, he is of, for and with the extreme left and has demonstrated that fact for any that will see. I think this strategy is the last straw man for BO, failure here will open the door dor us to see the real redman in the WH.
the Kos Kids are absolutely gonna FREAK when he does this...will be loads of fun to watch!
Understand this. He needs something anything passed, good or bad.
His best hope for himself would be a truly bi-partision bill but with liberals and republicans differences, it’s impossible. (he wants Blue Dogs and RINOs to pass a bill)
Another tip is that single payer leftys at MSNBC are claiming this failure will hurt Obama in 2012. But what would hurt Obama is if it fails AND republicans only gain enough seats to cause gridlock, but not enough to be held responsible again, (like in 1995.) That would kill Obama in 2012.
I consider myself to be a progressive conservative, in the model of Jack Kemp and Newt. I care about the poor and the urban economy. Black unemployment is much higher it was under Bush...and even then it was still very high. What is obama doing about it? So what if he’s black...doesn’t help them one bit.
Why offer entitlements to everyone? Shouldn’t the govt just help those that truly can’t help themselves instead of giving $ to everyone? If we just focused on the truly sick and poor, we’d be able to treat them better.
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