I think the health care fight will be the important one to watch. If Obama gets a genuine universal program together that the typical person can afford, then I think it's probably Game Over for the Reps in 2012, because suddenly even the Bubbas are going to look around and say, "Huh, I got me some health care. This Obama feller's lookin' out for me."
Really bad news on the health care front. After making the case for a public option, and doing it very well, Obama said this: "We have not drawn lines in the sand other than that reform has to control costs and that it has to provide relief to people who don't have health insurance or are underinsured," Mr. Obama said. "Those are the broad parameters that we've discussed." There he goes again, gratuitously making a big gift to the other side.
"We have not drawn lines in the sand other than that reform has to control costs and that it has to provide relief to people who don't have health insurance or are underinsured," Mr. Obama said. "Those are the broad parameters that we've discussed."
There he goes again, gratuitously making a big gift to the other side.
Although he's right on the rest -- that the reformers need to go out and stiffen the administration's spine. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
the reformers need to go out and stiffen the administration's spine.
what spine ? I hope everybody is right about these green shoots of liberalism emerging from the White house cos all I see is the same old pre-emptive surrender to the repugs that disfigured the dems during the Bush administration.
I mean, Harry Reid is still there isn't he ? So that's a great big jellyfish-stained white flag all over DC to start with. keep to the Fen Causeway
Obama can stand up there and talk about the public option until he's blue in the face, but if the work to get the asshats in Congress on board isn't done -- and that requires the activists -- then it ain't gonna happen. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
'Over to you with my aggressively incoherent backhand!' [fumble, fumble] 'No, over to you with a wild shot which takes out a ballgirl!' [pitiful pratfall] 'Back atcha!' [serious self-inflicted eye injury with an angry Argentinian carp] 'Whuuu...!' [catastrophic collision with a soft toy vending machine]
Repeat until no one cares any more.
that last speech of obama's he had enough eyeliner, mascara and lavender-hued eyeshadow on to give zsa zsa gabor a fit of envy.
it gave a bit of an some-girls edge to the grave, lofty peptalk, more saturnalia than saturnine.
i guess maybe he always used it, but not laid on with a trowel like now.
greasepaint is, er, un-statesmanlike, (unless you're dario fo...!) ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
