Well, it wasn't even that much fun while it lasted...
A supermajority really isn't very super or much of a majority at all when it's led by Democrats, is it?
A supermajority really isn't very super or much of a majority at all when it's led by Democrats, is it?
Republicans walked in lockstep with every disasterous decision Bush/Cheney dreamed up. Democrats couldn't even hold together to pass their signature issue. And now they can't even carry Massachusetts.
Out with a whimper instead of a bang...
From the New York Times:
With no clear path forward on major health carelegislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama’s topdomestic priority on Tuesday, saying that they no longer felt pressure to movequickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missingthem.of Nevada, deflected questions about health care. “We’re not on health carenow,” he said. “We’ve talked a lot about it in the past.” He added, “There is norush,” and noted that Congress still had most of this year to work on the healthbills passed in 2009 by the Senate and the House.Mr. Reidsaid that he and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi ofCalifornia, were working to map out a way to complete a health care overhaul incoming months. “There are a number of options being discussed,” Mr. Reid said,emphasizing “procedural aspects” of the issue.At the sametime, two centrist Democratic senators who are up for re-election this year,Blanche L. Lincoln of Arkansas and Evan Bayh of Indiana,said that they would resist efforts to muscle through a health care bill using aparliamentary tactic called budget reconciliation, which seemed to be thesimplest way to advance the measure.The White House has saidin recent days that it would support that approach.Some Democrats said that they did not expect anyaction on health care legislation until late February at earliest, perhaps afterCongress returns from a weeklong recess. But the Democrats stand to losemomentum, and every day closer to the November election that the issue remainsunresolved may reduce the chances of passing a far-reaching bill.
Wednesday is the State of the Union address. President Obama hoped to be able to trumpet credible health care reform in his speech.
Rewrite!
The state of the union? #@&%$!
2 comments:
During his campaign Obama had no clear vision of what the reform would be. That was Hillary's to own with a clear consise single payor platform. Obama's failure to understand that true reform has no middle ground is literally killing people. Hillary understood and articulated that its either single payor for all or failure. Hurts me to say it but I am starting to think that Hillary was probably the "right man for the job".
TBLMISBT
Health care reform's selling point--it's tag line--should have been "Medicare for all." And Obama should have been preaching it from the rooftops.
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