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Obama
accepts HC blame
What the hell was he thinking?
Blaming himself for coolness to his
health care overhaul, Obama is seeking to reintroduce the law
to voters who don't much like or understand it six months after he
signed it.
A new poll finds high levels of
misunderstanding about what's actually in the law, and more people
opposed than in support. And with crucial midterm elections six weeks
away, the only Democrats
running ads about the historic legislation are the ones who voted "no."
Obama ruefully told his listeners, "Sometimes I fault myself for not being able
to make the case more
clearly to the country."
It's possible the President and I
are about to have our first big fight.
That last sentence in bold, I believe, is a lie.
It's possible that it's true in some technical sense, but that's not
what happened.
Obama refused to come
to work, leaving everything in the hands of America's most
beloved
politicians, Reid and Pelosi, who went on to add THOUSANDS of pages of
bullshit rules that
weren't needed because that's what liberals do with power.They get
drunk and spray it around
like a goddamn fire hose.
Why didn't Obama know that?
I wish I could get Obama under oath with a judge who directed him to
answer my questions.
I would ask, "Who told you it would be a GREAT idea to turn your
historic presidency over to
Reid and Pelosi so their staffs could manufacture a
health care bill that was too big to read - or
even hold - and then stuffed with cubic miles of red-tape
bullshit that was sure to fail?
On his deathbed, maybe in the year 2049, Obama
just might look up and his wife and kids and say,
"How
could I have blown such a giant, important opportunity by refusing to
come to work?
How
stupid was I to allow those two uber-bureaucrats to bureaucratize my
presidency and
turn the
American people against me after I'd won such a great victory only
months before?"
So his statement, "Sometimes I fault myself for not being able to make the case
more clearly to the country" -
isn't that the worst kind of self-serving bullshit?
We
all watched it happen live, and now Obama's going to explain what
happened?
YOU made the decision to refuse to come to work - nobody
did that for you.
YOU put Reid & Pelosi in charge of your legacy - what were ya
thinking?
And did you ever consider making the bill small enough to
explain?
Why did it have to have 25,000
moving parts?
Why couldn't it have had nine
moving parts?
Then you could write the details on your fingers and sell it that way.
I'll bet what happened, some idiot Democrat said, "We haven't had
reform in 60 years,
so we
should put sixty years worth of of reform in this - the bigger the
better,
right?"
Maybe you should've gotten Marcia Clark to do a
non-stop, 90-day sales pitch.
throw that part out. At that point, the Bitch or the Boner knew how easy you'd be to roll.
Then tell us you play poker, Mr President.
I find that really goddamn hard to believe.
How can you play poker if you fold every time someone says "Boo?"
It's possible Obama will get "Tanning booth taxed" out of the White House in 2012.
That would be a super-sad end to a once white-hot political career.
Good thing Bush holds the record for "biggest squandered WH
opportunity,"
because without him, you, Sir, would have that distinction, at least
the modern one.
I screamed for over a year, "Come to work! Wake the Hell up!" but nobody listened.
Now Obama's saying "Sometimes I fault myself for not getting
out of bed and coming to work."
Wasted opportunities, blown opportunities,
neglected opportunities..
It was all there and you let it slip thru your fingers.
It's very sad.
Afterthought:
I just heard yesterday, the GOP unveiled their Pledge to America, a booklet of
lies that pretends
to explain what they'll do if they win - and was it 2,000,000
pages long?
No, it's just 21pages long - so you know Reid & Pelosi weren't involved.
It's very sad.