Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Obama - Live and Unscripted

I dare Bob McDonnell to do this.
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wish he'd speak more about his lack of leadership on health care reform. A Senate supermajority, a nice cushion in the House, and the White House blows it.

2/2/10, 12:53 PM
Bubby said...

There is a lot to be disappointed about. But when the Federal government spends $1 trillion/year on health care and we can't get a single Republican to support reform of Health Care you have to wonder where we can find common ground. Health care spending is 16% of our GDP. Fix health care costs and we are well on our way to fixing our budget problems.

2/2/10, 2:00 PM
Anonymous said...

But, Obama didn't need any Republican votes. Common ground is nice, but the fact is he had the votes to push this through. He offers it up, then just punts to Pelosi and Reid to make it happen. Congress mucks it up as the White House dithers, not willing to say one way or another whether they would stand behind a public option or not and so forth. Meanwhile millions remain without coverage and we're no closer to actual reform than we were a year ago.

Its been a study in incompetence and lack of leadership from the start, imo, and I'm not about to give him a pass and just blame the party of no. Nobody expected anything else from the GOP, but we sure expected a lot more from Obama.

2/2/10, 2:38 PM
third option said...

Last anon wouldn't hold the gop responsible in any case, but other than wishing to push his poll numbers down like pappa rush said to do, obama cant be blamed for the dithering of a super majority that alot of us thought would work better together. whoever the idiots are that keep saying dems are blind worshipers is either lying or has never dealt with a group of dems.

2/2/10, 2:54 PM
Anonymous said...

"Wouldn't hold the GOP responsible in any case?"

The GOP's obstructionism is a secondary issue. We handed Obama huge majorities in Congress so he could deliver, and instead of leading he waffles. Just today in NH he's saying we have to get reform done, THIS YEAR. Heard that same refrain last year, too, and look what happened? NOTHING. Talk is cheap. He can certainly be blamed for how this has turned out...the buck stops with him.

Shaking the poms poms for Obama is nice and everything, but everyone is in denial if they think he's not dropped the ball on this. His whole agenda, in fact, is in jeopardy. At least Republicans know how to pass things with smaller majorities than what he's got.

2/2/10, 3:05 PM
Bubby said...

I'm actually confident that we will have health care reform legislation by mid-year. And to the point that "we handed Obama big majorities", no, we gave him Mark Warner and he's on board. Oklahoma gave Obama Ben Nelson, and the Dakota's love them some Max Baucus. Two supremely flawed Democrats. Harry Reid will have to beg his people to vote for him this year.

2/3/10, 10:33 AM
Anonymous said...

I think Ben Nelson represents Nebraska. Flawed Dems or not, the WH was asking them to take votes just as support for reform was reaching its nadir; had they been on top of their game early on, he'd have been able to sign something into law-with a public option-sometime last fall.

You were right, there is a lot to be disappointed about. I want Obama to lead, but it just seems like he's stuck in campaign mode. I have my doubts anything worthwhile regarding healthcare gets passed, and we can kiss climate change legislation good bye too.

2/3/10, 11:17 AM

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