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Positioning for the Future!
If for one second you think that President Obama, based on his Super Bowl Day interview, is sincere when he says he wants to change politics in Washington, I am afraid that you are going to be extremely disappointed.
Don't you hate it when an administration brings national known news reader from a network like CBS, hands her the questions to ask and pretends it is a news service that they are providing? Did this look like a completely fabricated political maneuver by the administration? This only demonstrates politicians' disdain for the voting public.
The audacity of our President to pay CBS for 15 minutes during the Super Bowl hyped pregame program is, by any standard, manipulative and repulsive. Cash may not have passed hands but I'll bet some heavy political capital was spent to get this very valuable time slot.
In case you missed it, President Obama used the 44th Super Bowl Pregame audience for his latest foray into the world of Chicago Style politics, inviting Republicans to participate in an open nationally televised debate on health care reform. I have some questions. (For his fully speech, copy and paste this CBS News link. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6184114n)
Why now? Why didn't Obama exhibit this degree of leadership when the Democrats began their closed-door meetings on the Health care Bill? Why did it take the Tea Party movement, the governor elections in N.J. and Virgina and the Senate elections in Massachusetts before he decided to maybe, possibly include ideas from Republicans?
So President Obama wants you to believe that he truly wants Republican ideas. That their input is going to count. That this is going to be a strictly bi-partisan committee dedicated to Health care reform.
"If Democrats and Republicans come together in a sensible way, putting everything on the table, not trying to position themselves politically ahead of time, then there's no reason why we can't start putting into place some serious measures that will start lowering the deficit long term" said President Obama. He went on to say that Health care reform is the first major step to reducing the deficit. He says it so believably only after positioning himself and the Democrat party politically.
Will he or Democrats take any Republican ideas seriously? I don't believe so. This was just political posturing at its best before the American people trying to postpone retirement for many Democrats.
Remember to vote in November.
Don't you hate it when an administration brings national known news reader from a network like CBS, hands her the questions to ask and pretends it is a news service that they are providing? Did this look like a completely fabricated political maneuver by the administration? This only demonstrates politicians' disdain for the voting public.
The audacity of our President to pay CBS for 15 minutes during the Super Bowl hyped pregame program is, by any standard, manipulative and repulsive. Cash may not have passed hands but I'll bet some heavy political capital was spent to get this very valuable time slot.
In case you missed it, President Obama used the 44th Super Bowl Pregame audience for his latest foray into the world of Chicago Style politics, inviting Republicans to participate in an open nationally televised debate on health care reform. I have some questions. (For his fully speech, copy and paste this CBS News link. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6184114n)
Why now? Why didn't Obama exhibit this degree of leadership when the Democrats began their closed-door meetings on the Health care Bill? Why did it take the Tea Party movement, the governor elections in N.J. and Virgina and the Senate elections in Massachusetts before he decided to maybe, possibly include ideas from Republicans?
So President Obama wants you to believe that he truly wants Republican ideas. That their input is going to count. That this is going to be a strictly bi-partisan committee dedicated to Health care reform.
"If Democrats and Republicans come together in a sensible way, putting everything on the table, not trying to position themselves politically ahead of time, then there's no reason why we can't start putting into place some serious measures that will start lowering the deficit long term" said President Obama. He went on to say that Health care reform is the first major step to reducing the deficit. He says it so believably only after positioning himself and the Democrat party politically.
Will he or Democrats take any Republican ideas seriously? I don't believe so. This was just political posturing at its best before the American people trying to postpone retirement for many Democrats.
Remember to vote in November.
posted by Brian J Perks at
3:46 PM
9 Comments:
Brian,
I think this is great news. This is an admission by Obama that he cannot move on health care reform as things stand now. He has to have the appearance of bi-partisanship to move forward and he's not going to get it. It looks like the American people have scared the living hell out of the Democrats.
Brian, there are already lots of Republican ideas in the Senate health care bill. Republicans really don't want to cooperate with Democrats on health care or any other of the Democratic agenda.
Republicans want to destroy President Obama and the Democratic party for electoral success in 2010. But there is no other agenda for the Republican party. They don't care about good policy, average Americans, good, hard working middle-class Americans. They just want power, period.
I hope it's a repeat performance of President Obama at the House Republican retreat and he shows the Republicans up for their hypocrisy health care.
Americans want tort reform, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, health savings credits, true reform, among other things.
If the Obama administration is so sure that it is on the right track, they should implement the so called cost savings of $500,000,000 they claim is fraudulently paid by Medicare that exists within the system. Do something small, assuming you think a half billion dollars is small. Take baby steps to reform the system, not screw the 85% of Americans happy with their insurance. Correct small things first and show the American people that they can lead by example.
Tort reform will not happen because many Democratic campaigns are funded by trial lawyers. Obama's recent flip-flop on Wall Street salaries is another case of the Democrats attempt to shore up their financial base for the November elections because Wall Street is one of their prime campaign contributors.
Yes, Republicans may want power but it may be because of the current corruption in government. And they may end up being as corrupt as the Democrats but they are our only hope at this point.
Remember to vote in November.
Brian, do you honestly think tort reform, which is responsible for about 1% of the cost of our health care system and allows patients who were negligently treated or not treated, as the case may be, is the solution to our health care system problems?
Really?
Wow, you are thinking like a politician again, Bruce. Only 1% savings for tort reform. A couple hundred million here and a couple hundred million there and pretty soon you are talking real money. If 1% is so insignificant, why don't they just pass tort reform and show the world that it is not the savings that you say it is? After all, it is like you said, only 1%.
What is 1% of a billion?
Reform has to start somewhere. Open out of state purchasing ability. Tort reform. Fraud. It all adds up.
Because, Brian, 1% is the cost of justice. You remember that quaint concept of justice, don't you, Brian?
Are you suggesting that medical malpractice lawsuits be eliminated all together? Would you have the same propensity if you or one of your family members were harmed by a negligent doctor? I think not.
Doesn't it make more sense to go after the real cost drivers instead of nibbling around the edges?
Maybe we can get rid of civil lawsuits all together, Brian. We could save some real money by doing away with all the judges and the courts, couldn't we? Why don't we just us military tribunal trials, kangaroo courts. It's much cheaper, isn't it? Idiot.
Bruce, you are over reacting. I didn't say eliminate all law suits, I said tort reform. If you have a sore finger, you don't have to cut off you arm to fix it.
What part of REFORM don't you understand.
And by all means, let's go after some of the real costs, like fraud in government (committed by all parties and many companies dealing with government)
While we are at it, let's audit the Federal Government and really save some money.
Brian, I have no stomach for fraud in government or the private sector. I assume you will also support criminal trials for those at the big banks that committed the biggest fraud in history on the American people, practically bringing the global economic system to catastrophe.
Let's put the CEO's of Citi, Goldman, AIG and others in jail, where they belong.
I have a feeling if they audited the Fed we would find some really, really bad things that if revealed would cause a global crisis of confidence. That said, I agree, let's shine the light on the Fed.
Bruce, I have personally seen the waste by such companies as AIG. As a meeting producer, I have produced graphics for AIG and have seen the waste first hand. I can't speak to any fraud because I have not been privey to any information but based on the level of waste, I would suspect a great deal of fraud could have occurred but it is not nearly as grand a scale as the U.S. Government.
I support any fraud investigation, on any level, as long as it is not a witch hunt that is politically motivated. I suspect that if we audited the Federal Government, we would find trillions of dollars missing and unaccountable. Actually make that whatever comes after trillion.
But you have to look at it the way our government looks at it. It is not real money, it is just taxpayer funds for them to spend.
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