President Is Set to 'Take the Baton'

[LuckyTheDog]

I hate to say this, but if Obama really wanted to get a health care bill this summer, he probably should have made fewer overseas trips. Foreign policy is important. But so is working the phones to get your domestic agenda -- the one you were elected to enact -- passed. Let Hillary handle the world community for now.

That said, I am glad to see that Obama is getting into the trenches now. If y'all have not called your members of Congress yet to demand they get off their butts and get something passed -- to it first thing Monday morning.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901465_pf.html

Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.

With skepticism about the president's health-care reform effort mounting on Capitol Hill -- even within his own party -- the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to dramatically increase public pressure on Congress: all Obama, all the time.

Senior White House aides promise "an aggressive public and private schedule" for Obama as he presses his case for reform, including a prime-time news conference on Wednesday, a trip to Cleveland, and heavy use of Internet video to broadcast his message beyond the reach of the traditional media.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. Well it's about effin' time. He better just hope he ain't

a day late and a trillion dollars short.





Tansy Gold

[tabatha]

2. I remember during the primaries and election

there were all sorts of people criticizing Obama for the way he was handling things --- he needed to be tougher, he needed to .....etc,etc

[FrenchieCat]

3. So he does what folks wanted him to do,

and folks are still whining.

Now it's too late, its not enough, he's too slow, he's too this, and not enough that,
etc., etc., etc...


I'm sure folks don't like the way he scratches his ass either. :eyes:

[lunatica]

6. Well he probably scratches it with his left hand since he's a lefty

But there's no pleasing some people so you're probably right. Righty? Lefty? Some people are bound to be offended.

:shrug:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Has Health Care reform failed already and I missed it?

:shrug:

Besides, it's not like he doesn't have a lot "mending" to do on the international scene- thanks to the damage caused to our reputation during the past eight years. It's not like he is having a "working vacation" at his ranch in Texas- like a certain former (P)resident. Perhaps you agree with Zell and think that Rahm should just glue him to his chair in the oval office? :eyes:

[kath]

5. The idea that they need to "get something passed", *anything* passed, is bogus --

non-reform "reform" that is just a sop to the insurance companies is worse than no bill at all - it will just set the possibility of any significant reform (ie, a significant move toward single payer or some meaningful universal CARE - not universal INSURANCE, which is bullshit) back by two or three decades).