It's Not Rahm's Fault. It's Obama's Fault (0bamacare Blame Game Heats Up)

Slate ^ | 10/23/2010 | Mickey Kaus

[mojito]

...the point is that this is an entire debate we didn't need to have right now. Obama could have proposed a bill that expanded coverage and raised taxes to pay for it. True, that would have pissed off voters who really don't like tax increases. Instead, he proposed raising taxes and instituting some ominously vague, to-be-determined, 'scientific' and anti-democratic restraints on health care treatments. This successfully pissed off voters who really don't like tax increases and voters--mainly older voters--worried about being denied treatments. The combination of losing the anti-government voters and losing seniors may prove fatal. ...

If it does, it won't be David Axelrod's fault, and it won't be Rahm Emanuel's fault. It won't even be Peter Orszag's fault. It's Obama's fault. Obama's the one who fell for Orszag's Laffer-curve-like, win-win, 'this will save money' line, and who raised the issue at every opportunity in the middle of 2009. It's Obama who became infatuated with--and ordered his staff to read--Atul Gawande's amorphous New Yorker curve-bending argument and Ron Brownstein's even-less-convincing-than-it-seemed-at-the-time cheerleading piece. It was Obama who eagerly let himself get suckered into discussing end-of-life rationing in the pages of the New York Times.

What do presidents do when they should fire themselves?

[mojito]

Let the firing commence.

[Frantzie]

Rahm is a mossad mole.

[Cicero]

At the end of the article:

“Filed under: OBAMA, HEALTH CARE, RAHM, ORSZAGISM, GOGGLE-EYED MELONHEAD”

[boomop1]

Obama is too dumb, which applies the blame to hs minions, they wish to be absolved of responsibility..

[shield]

We have amateurs in the WH...the whole bunch...

[goldstategop]

Its Obama's Fault, Stupid!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[mojito]

My favorite part is that 0's romance with healthcare, despite all evidence that it was a dumb...no suicidal, move politically, came after becoming infatuated with an article in the New Yorker.

[Neverforget01]

Obama’s answer to the question re the pacemaker : Maybe a pain pill instead...should have been the end of the healthcare debate in my opinion.

[Nepeta]

My favorite part is that 0's romance with healthcare, despite all evidence that it was a dumb...no suicidal, move politically, came after becoming infatuated with an article in the New Yorker.

When you are not particularly intelligent (Obama is not) or particularly well-schooled (Obama? He was never a serious scholar) and you have zilch serious experience, of course it makes sense that you will grasp some fantasy as attainable. Unfortunately, his folly affects the rest of us.

[SandRat]

Circular Cifing Squad forming up.

[Oceander]

Holy Toledo, Batman! Is the Obummer gonna get thrown under his own bus, now?

[DeaconRed]

AXEL-SLUNG ROD Said today on "this week" that the American people won't know whats in any healthcare bill until after its passed.

They just don't get it, and with any luck they never will.

[ari-freedom]

“When you are not particularly intelligent (Obama is not) or particularly well-schooled (Obama? He was never a serious scholar) and you have zilch serious experience”

Corzine had all those things but he still failed because he is a liberal.

[DCPatriot]

What do presidents do when they should fire themselves?

That's easy....commit suicide. Kill yourself.

[kiltie65]

“What should Presidents do when they should fire themselves?” Off themselves?

[Iron Munro]