High-minded fecklessness: Obama brought a cake knife to a gunfight!

Sept. 3, 2009 | If President Obama expects Congress to pass a healthcare reform bill worth signing, he'd better grasp that "bipartisanship" is a means, not an end. After eight years of cheering themselves hoarse over one catastrophic Bush blunder after another, Republicans will start dealing with reality only when they're afraid not to. Right now, it's their talk-radio/Fox News-hypnotized base that's got GOP congressmen running scared.

The White House ought to have learned from unanimous Republican opposition to the economic stimulus. "There's no question in my view that Bush was the most fiscally irresponsible president in the history of the republic," David M. Walker, Bush's own comptroller general, recently told the Washington Post. Now he tells us. After helping their hero literally double the national debt, GOP congressmen then became stern "fiscal conservatives" in the face of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Many knew better, but they also knew the White House had the votes. Striking poses cost them nothing. Stimulus money found its way into their districts anyway. Remarkably, Obama failed to get the message. Seemingly preoccupied with the president's image as a transformative figure, the White House keeps trying to negotiate with people who seek his political destruction.

On healthcare reform, Obama has mainly his own high-minded fecklessness to blame. To alter the cliché, he hasn't just brought a knife to a gunfight, he's brought a cake knife. The GOP's armed for war; he's showed up with a multilayered birthday cake of a bill hardly anybody understands.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/03/cake_knife//

Hope this helps.

:headbang:

Yeah they do. Time to push through real reforms, without those repukes.

Give me a break.

The guy came out on top of one of the most brutal 2 year election campaigns in history. Now everyone is trying to judge him like he doesn't know what he is doing. He has already accomplished more in less than a year than Bush did in 8. Still the media has to find fault and criticism because saying he is doing a good job does not generate traffic and sell advertising.

Bill Moyers suggests Obama take the moral high ground, that as a decent nation, we need govt option (let alone single payer) and make that message known to the public, urge popular demand for it. Recent polls whow 70%+ agree we need a system, not the chaos we have now.

I agree that the white house needs to have a united front, needs to react faster to the public (not DC players) when "death panels" and other Rite Wing flak gets thrown at them.

We (I mean everyone who wants to try to take back power from the scumbag lobbyists) need to make our voices known. this poll:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062303510.html

shows 85% of Americans are concerned about pending healthcare costs if we don't change.

it's war (of words) - let's take action