Thread: Waterloo: Weariness and Desperation in Health Care Debate

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Weariness and Desperation in Health Care Debate

By Roger Aronoff
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The health care debate has descended into a fiasco, draining President Obama of his high approval ratings, angering his base, polarizing the country, damaging his credibility, along with that of the Democratic-led Congress. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s characterization of this turning out to be Obama’s Waterloo is looking more and more prescient.

Obama’s push for health care reform is on life support, along with a cap-and-trade bill unlikely to pass in the Senate, and a deal between Israel and the Palestinians that seems farther away from reality than even in recent years. And despite Obama’s attempt to change their behavior by treating them differently, there is no indication that Iran or N. Korea has any intentions of giving up their nuclear weapons programs, nor Iran’s support for terrorist organizations to recede.

President Obama and his pals in the media are growing ever more desperate. The MSNBC line-up is doing its best to discredit the opposition to the Democrats’ ideas for health care reform, but even they may have their limits to their obsequiousness to Obama. Clearly congressional members of his own party are tiring of playing along with the idea that Obama has delivered a consistent message. They have grown weary of trying to keep up with Obama’s shifting policy standards, while claiming they haven’t shifted at all.

On June 15 he told the American Medical Association (AMA) that “This gives you some new options. And I believe one of these options needs to be the public option.â€

If Dems ever hope to be in public office again they will have to vote against Communist Health care and vote against Amnesty.