The Rats are pinning their health reform hopes on me!
Posted on 09/08/2009 1:02:39 AM PDT by Zakeet
Democrats return to Washington this week for a last-ditch effort to salvage health care reform, looking to President Obama's joint-session speech Wednesday to avert a political and legislative train wreck.
It is an astonishing reversal of fortunes for a party that started the year with triumphant control of Congress and the presidency, confident in its ambitions to retool the nation's economy, not only with health care but also climate change and a New Deal-style economic stimulus.
Democrats instead return bloodied by a terrible August of plummeting public support, raucous town-hall meetings, a re-energized GOP and an impasse in their own ranks over whether to provide a "public option" as an alternative to private health insurance.
Health care may swallow efforts to address climate change, while the weak economy and shocking deficits fuel public fears about the government's capacity to launch costly new social programs.
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The White House is deep in negotiations with one of the few Republican senators still at the table, Maine's Olympia Snowe, who has proposed a "trigger" mechanism that would provide a public option only if cost savings promised by the insurance and drug industries fail to materialize.
Snowe argues that more savings must be achieved before adding $1 trillion in new spending, and the taxes to pay for it, to a system already plagued by waste and soaring costs. Her idea has intrigued interest groups and analysts worried that reforms in Massachusetts that are similar to the Democratic legislation have achieved near universal coverage but also threaten the state's finances.
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The Rats are pinning their health reform hopes on me!
pop meet corn
A liberal’s compassion is limited only by the size of someone else’s wallet.
(my tag line)
I can hardly wait.
It's hard to regain the mojo once lost.
It’s amazing how the Dimocrats view Americans as nothing monkeys to be manipulated. This week was nothing but a marketing make over for Zer0.
It is become apparent that Zer0 is in this for himself. He is a narcissist; our benevolent dictator.
He is truly in his own world.
Obumbler has been horrible at speech making lately! The Dr.’s getting $50,000 to amputate a limb. The savings on health care reform, savings on preventative medicine. The garbage about the USPS vs UPS etc. This doesn’t look good. It is clear Obama really doesn’t understand health care and there really isn’t a bill or position to present since no bill or position has been formulated yet!
...”It’s hard to regain the mojo once lost”...
Yes! Who could ever trust any move coming out of this administration and it’s “shadow” government.
I can't stand to even listen to him and will wait for the written comments.
Amen to that..big difference between an orator and a reader...and zero "ain't no orator.
My statement reminds me of a guy I worked with on a boat awhile back. He was a damn good cook, and I praised his work.. He came back to me with this,"Cap, there is a big difference between a cook and a canopener, and I ain't no canopener."
“Democrats...looking to President Obama’s joint-session speech Wednesday to avert a political and legislative train wreck.”
obuma’s speech: I, me,me,me,I, I, I, mine, me,me,me, me, mememememememe, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.....
The best ‘reform’ is to get the Fed/Guv as far away from it as possibile.
His voice inflections and smug looks have made me tune him out. Only the TOTUS keeps him on target otherwise he would be speechless.
Democrats return to Washington this week for a last-ditch effort to salvage health care reform, looking to President Obama’s joint-session speech Wednesday to avert a political and legislative train wreck.
WOW the Dems don’t even realize the train has already wrecked..
‘WOW the Dems don’t even realize the train has already wrecked..’
A few do...the ones who bothered to talk w/ constituents rather than hide. The rest lapsed into ‘Ostrich’ mode and are still in the dark. Hopefully, the light will be dawning nice and bright shortly.
I have a hard time believing one speech is going to change people’s minds.
Today's speech is only Chapter One.
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