Does the apparent failure of a significant health care reform mean we will have 3 years of a lame duck president? Does it mean government being run by who can get the largest...most vocal..most violent people out to support their causes?

I think so.

The ultimate responsibility for this sorry state of affairs belongs with the president, who vacillates between speaking out boldly for a “public option,” and permitting his aides and appointees to undermine his message by confiding their plans to sell out.

His worst tendency, to exalt bipartisan compromise above progressive policy, has left him at the mercy of senatorial frauds like Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who pretended to negotiate over details while denouncing the president for seeking to terminate America’s grandmothers. Obama assigned far too much responsibility for health care reform to aides who exacerbate that weakness—and in particular to Rahm Emanuel, the current chief of staff and former congressman from Chicago.

Every mistake made by the Obama White House in the pursuit of health care reform can be traced to the political style and ideological prejudices of Emanuel, who has sought to intimidate progressives and empower conservatives, always in the name of winning elections and “getting things done.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090819_obamas_enforcer_not_really_tough_enough/

Registered Voter...a Big talking coward..big man on FFXU...little man in life.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2009 08:59AM by Vince(1).

First of all, health care reform has not failed. It may, but it hasn't yet. Secondly, ask Bill Clinton if failure of health care reform early in a first term means you are a lame duck.



Vince(1) Wrote:
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> Does the apparent failure of a significant health
> care reform mean we will have 3 years of a lame
> duck president? Does it mean government being run
> by who can get the largest...most vocal..most
> violent people out to support their causes?
>
> I think so.

Voter Wrote:
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> First of all, health care reform has not failed.
> It may, but it hasn't yet. Secondly, ask Bill
> Clinton if failure of health care reform early in
> a first term means you are a lame duck.
>
>
>
> Vince(1) Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Does the apparent failure of a significant
> health
> > care reform mean we will have 3 years of a lame
> > duck president? Does it mean government being
> run
> > by who can get the largest...most vocal..most
> > violent people out to support their causes?
> >
> > I think so.


Obama does not seem to the fire in his belly that Bill Clinton has...Obama allows too much dsicent within his administration/staff....too much compromise

Registered Voter...a Big talking coward..big man on FFXU...little man in life.

Vince(1) Wrote:
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> Obama does not seem to the fire in his belly that
> Bill Clinton has...Obama allows too much dsicent
> within his administration/staff....too much
> compromise

Like you said before, GO OBAMA!