Obama's Health Care Redux...

Even in the AP---stillborn

Starting over on health care, President Barack Obama knows his chances aren't looking much more promising. A year after he called for a far-reaching overhaul, Obama unveiled his most detailed plan yet on Monday. Realistically, he's just hoping to win a big enough slice to silence the talk of a failing presidency.

I can not fathom what the man is after. He is driving his party off a cliff. Currently Reid and Pelosi have been fairly silent.

Rush claims it's the result of a long term lust for a thing almost had. In this case a decades long quest for universal health care.

I don't know. A deeply ingrained arrogance fertilized with years of academia fused with a personal history devoid of the lessons of failure seems to have handicapped our president with a tin ear.

The end game still eludes me, though. Do they really think they will succeed? This sort of success will only bring loss this fall.

Unless there is along term gain.


Update:

From the CBO:

...the materials that were released this morning do not provide sufficient detail on all of the provisions. Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail, and, even if such detail were provided, analyzing the proposal would be a time-consuming process that could not be completed this week.

A vapor bill. I guess theatrics help with the sales pitch.



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