Posted on 09/07/2009 9:52:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The coming week may represent a tipping point for the Obama administration's moving forward its health care agenda on its own terms.
As the president prepares for a major address to Congress Wednesday in support of his reform plans, President Obama has faced stiff challenges, from the raucous public debates at town hall meetings to Republican (and some Democratic) legislators critical of government control over health care coverage.
When asked on CBS' "The Early Show" about the president's prospects, CBS News Chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer said that the administration has to reclaim the issue of health care from its opponents.
"This has been some summer for this president: His polls are down, unemployment is up," Schieffer told "Early Show" anchor Harry Smith. "He really has got to get everybody together and regroup. And I think the way he has to do that, the way at least he has to start it, is to make a speech to the Congress that gets this whole debate on health care off the dime.
"I think you'll see him give more specifics on exactly what he wants in this plan, but he's also on a real high wire here. . . . Polls show that most Americans still don't know what is in the plan that Congress is working on.
"If he makes a speech and a couple days down the line they run another poll and they still don't know, it's going to show there's real problems with the substance of the plan itself and not with the presentation and the arguments being made. He's got it all on the line here and he really has to get something going."
"Did he make a mistake in the first place by giving this issue to Congress saying, 'You guys come up with a plan and then we'll work it all out and you can negotiate it all out?'" asked Smith. "I'm not sure too many people in the country actually understand what the president wants to get out of health care."
"I think you're exactly right on that," Schieffer said. "What the president did not want to do is what happened to the Clinton administration. When Hillary Clinton designed a health care package, they did it in secret, then sent it up to the Congress, and it just fell like a stone — it was dead on arrival. He wanted to avoid that. But he may have learned this lesson too well.
"It's very difficult to get 535 people to come to some consensus on details of something as complicated as health care. They need to know what it is the president will be for at the end of the day because these are very tough votes for them to make. These are survival votes for many of the people in Congress. They've got to know if the president will be with them when they vote for things like raising taxes. The hope of the White House is that he can give more details and sort of lay out that and sort of reassure the Congress this time, and also build some public pressure on them by making this speech. But if he doesn't do that, he's going to have a hard time.
"I think, Harry, this may well be the biggest week of the Obama administration so far. If he doesn't get this going, if he suffers defeat here, he'll be in trouble from here on."
I love it when they raise expectations!
- if its so great, congress should be on it. Need this question answered from obama
- how on earth do you decrease cost by increasing coverage for tens of million of people. Supply remain same, but demands multiples many fold
The idea Americans don’t know what’s in the congressional plans is absurd. We know. And we don’t like what we see. What I’m curious to see are the viewership numbers of the speech to congress. I’ll bet they’re way down. People are tired of him.
I’ll take ‘Die’ for $1 trillion, Alex.
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ROTFLMAO!
jOker: “Do as I say, or you die.”
Not to worry, the msm will declare his speech the very best ever ever ever.
Get the Lockerbie news out and we will see what kind of week he has
Factoring in the source, SeeBS, you can get an outline for what the statists are thinking. Here, we have government media saying they expect a positive bump from multiple -13bama facetime events during the week and thus here is a chance to ram-rod it thru. They failed to ramrod under the radar prior to the summer recess, so they’ll ramrod HR3200 with what time remains in 2009.
That means they’ve already got a couple of helpful, post-speech polls in the tank for them.
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Governor Rick Perry may invoke the 10th Amendment over Obama’s health care bill (Vanity)
7/23/09 | Cowtowney
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No! NO you don’t, you muzzie pos. You’re not denying our seniors deserved health care while insuring millions of illegal aliens and while Demorats are REJECTING Obamacare for themselves and their families!
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Great example of how biased the media is, and how hypocritical they are.
When the left was screaming how bad the economy was under Bush, worst in 50 years, etc, etc, the media just chimed in and fueled the fire.
Now when it’s really truly in bad shape, they look for every excuse to lessen the damage to THEIR OWN GUY, they sit there and offer advice as opposed to screaming also about how bad it is and whoever’s in office needs to be booted out for incompetence and deliberately wanting things to be bad.
Makes me absolutely ill our MSM is purely propaganda spouting, hypocritical, liberal sycophants. Does anyone even really think they are independent from the administration anymore? I mean really? It’s just such a phony show, these press briefings. It’s all staged. How can we keep watching the same old softballs and crap being passed off as ‘objective journalism’ when it is nothing of the sort?
This Obamination of a bill should be aborted, much like the millions of unborn innocents the left has slaughtered over the years.
And Obama's agenda should be subjected to a partial-birth procedure, forcibly, just like the left would force their horrors upon the American people.
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