Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:13:01 PM
Thursday's televised health care summit is the end all for Obama Care. The point is, he is supposed to meet with Boehner and his friends, show the world on live TV that they are intractable and beyond negotiations and use them as a pinada to pin the blame on when they are forced to go for the "nuclear option" and pass off the Bill in the Senate as a budget reconciliation- requiring a simple 51 vote majority.
The interesting part is, Obama and his minions knew what the GOP wanted out of health care reform in January when he "met" with them then. The White House uses that meeting as evidence that they tried to bring the Republicans in from the beginning. I remember the meeting- do you? Obama listened, told them "but we won the election", and blew them off.
Now Obama can't find the votes in his own party to make this happen, and he has to change the rules. He is NOT starting over tomorrow. He is there to communicate his new Bill to the enraptured Republican audience. If they object, the White has HAS to go nuclear.
Well, I've got two things to say to that. One, all but the true Obama acolytes have come to realize that Barrack's line of s""t comes so thick and fast at times that it takes your breath away.
Second, if they DO pass this with budget rules, their exit from the majority will not just be ensured in numbers this November, they will soon learn what the worst part of "lame duck" means. They won't be able to do anything but flag resolutions this Summer.
I've long sinced quit musing that that can't be that dense. They are. This is nuts.