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2009-12-24 Home Front: Politix

WH putting health-care off until February?

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Posted by newc 2009-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Democratic members of congress, forget Trinidad. We'll be attacking at the Bay of Pigs.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-24 03:25|| 2009-12-24 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 From the article:
The longer that debate drags, the further Obama drops in the polls, which is why this move only makes sense if the White House sees weeks more futility in the health-care overhaul debate. Even liberal commentators like the Seattle Times editorial board want Democrats to shelve ObamaCare and start paying attention to the fact that unemployment has spun out of control on their watch. Deficits are even more wild, as Obamas OMB Director Peter Orszag was forced to acknowledge when he admitted that he had underestimated deficits over the next ten years by 22%, or $2,200,000,000,000. <- Two trillion

At this rate, Zero's Zogby poll numbers will be 22% (as estimated by Augush) and the unemployment rate will be 14.7% not counting the discouraged workers who have dropped out of the job market.

Posted by Angush Protector of the Poles2341 2009-12-24 05:37|| 2009-12-24 05:37|| Front Page Top

#3 So you bust your ass to get it passed by Christmas and the Lord Protector can't get around to it until February? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....Stop you're killing me!

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-12-24 08:01|| 2009-12-24 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 This regime is atrocious. One of the things that has me concerned are the number of off-hand comments in various places that broach the subject of revolution.

Note: these are not fanatical militia types or anything other than normal people that mention in passing that the behavior of the Zero claque is such that revolution is not totally out of the picture. This is said in such an off-hand manner..............................

Posted by AlanC 2009-12-24 08:35|| 2009-12-24 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 "ObamaCare tanking? Let's do a Stimulus 2, cause the first one was so successful and popular."

I don't think Obama is stupid, just completely detached from reality.

Posted by DMFD 2009-12-24 10:15|| 2009-12-24 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 They want to put off public discussion until they've had the chance to do some closed door reconciliation.

Posted by DoDo 2009-12-24 11:53|| 2009-12-24 11:53|| Front Page Top

#7 I think that's it. I also think they believe that they can turn the PR situation around given some time.

Get past Christmas and the Super Bowl, they're thinking.

Get Bambi to do a real stemwinder at the State of the Union, they're thinking.

Let winter settle in and diminish the response of the Tea Party types, they're thinking.

Let fatigue set in amongst the protesters, they're thinking.

Let the whole thing look like a fait accompli, they're thinking.

Get Rahm in there to twist some recalcitrant arms and to shut Stupak up. Come up with some more weasel words on the abortion issue. Bribe a few representatives with public money -- if Senators can cash in, why not Congresscritters?

Distract the rubes with a new stimulus plan. Maybe get a terrorist trial going. Climate change didn't work and cap-n-tax is a no-go but they can come up with something else.

I bet that's Axelrod's plan.

Posted by Steve White 2009-12-24 12:41|| 2009-12-24 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 There will be an election for a new Senator in January. This health care thing must be messing up the prospects of the democrat.

Posted by rammer 2009-12-24 12:58|| 2009-12-24 12:58|| Front Page Top

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