Posted on 10/18/2013 2:15:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — It's been a constant quandary for the Obama White House: Should the president reach out to his Republican opponents or isolate them? Should he compromise to move his agenda or try to split the GOP ranks? Carrot or stick?
[BIG SNIP]
Democrats continue to debate how the president should approach that process — offering concessions or lines in the sand. This week, former Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters he thought Obama should put "everything on the table," as well as do more to build relationships with Republicans.........
[Neera] Tanden [president of the Center for American Progress] scoffed at the notion that the president's poor relationships with Republicans were driving the division.
"I look at Leon Panetta, who I have a great deal of respect for — but what planet has he been on?" she said, arguing that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) did not try to repeal Obamacare because "Barack Obama hasn't taken him out for a drink."
"Republicans look at their self-interest," she said....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
But Chauncey Gardner comes to mind.
The Democrats should have left alone those folks with medical insurance, and that includes catastrophic medical insurance.
By concentrating on those who are uninsured or underinsured, the Democrats could have had the program moving along nicely at this point.
But no, BHO2 just had to be confrontational. That’s the way of the Community Organizer and frankly, most of the Democrat Party leadership.
Thank God they’re stupid. This medical fiasco is going to collapse and folks will not tolerate a bankrupt government trying to foist socialist medicine on America.
I think, IMHO, the Democrats have shot themselves in the foot.
Good post.
I hate to say it, but unless something changes, the Dems will get more funding next year.
The Collaborators are terrified of bad press. Hopefully, the fact that Cruz and the Tea Party will have been proven right, might give us some clout.
Obama will go with the stick.
The latest surrender of the Republican party has shown he has half of the Republican Senate in his pocket and one third of the Republican House in there with them.
That picture by the way shows exactly how the White Press Corpse treats Obama as they bow as he walks by.
I agree. It’s a house of cards waiting to fall. It’s OUR ace in the hole.
Uhhh, they need our (now higher) insurance premiums to fund the credits they give to the low/no income exchange members. They can’t and won’t leave us alone. We’re needed to pay for the deadbeats.
Everyone should change their tag to mine :-)
Just wait til the libs see how high their premiums are and realize the’ve been conned. Can’t wait to hear the whining begin. I think its going to wake most of them from their hypnotic zombie state. An enormous amount of people are now unemployed or their wages decreased significantly so they are going to loseva huge amount of tax revenue. I predict implosion of the system within one year when they realize there’s not going to beenough revenue to fund it and they start restricting medical care to keep osts down. Let the festivities begin.
...Working together on the gag reflex.
Can't wait either. "Hey, be-otch, it's the law!"
> Uhhh, they need our (now higher) insurance premiums to fund the credits they give to the low/no income exchange members. They can’t and won’t leave us alone. We’re needed to pay for the deadbeats.
Well they won’t be able to get it from me because 0 killed the economy and I’ve had a lot less revenue than in the past. Other people I know are experiencing the same.
> Can’t wait to hear the whining begin.
Can’t wait either. “Hey, be-otch, it’s the law!”
Yep. I’ll just say stop your whining. You thought the Tea Party was lying. You bought 0 and the MSM’s lies, line, and sinker. Eat it sucker!...lol
We’re already paying for them. You think those without insurance don’t show up in ERs? Of course they do.
There is a large population of young people who work and are healthy. Anyone over 18 and working should be in the medical insurance system. They are mistaken when they believe they do not need health insurance. No one is immortal.
Why?
The attitude that every medical expense, no matter how minor, must be paid by someone else through insurance, is a large part of why health care costs are so high to begin with. Moving to a model where only catastrophic illnesses/injuries are covered would reduce the costs--in fact, is the only way to reduce the costs, both of insurance and of health care.
Take your repetition of the Obamacare party line somewhere else.
The problem for the young people who are the backbone of support this financially due to their good health is that this will be exactly like social security and medicare, e.g., bankrupted by the time they really need it. Another unfunded Obligation if you look at actuary tables.
The lesson I see to future presidents is this:
As long as the Mainstream Media is on your side and covers up for you in all ways; You can do and say ANYTHING and get away with it.
Of course the opposite is true too, as soon as you lose the MSM, you are toast. You will be vilified and destroyed in the media everyday until you are destroyed in reality too.
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