President Obama has to face the facts. Although most people like him personally, the don't like his policies. His pursuit of health care reform has been a nightmare. He out-sourced the writing of the reform bill to Reid and Pelosi in an attempt to avoid a repeat of President Clinton's mistake of formulating a plan without the input of Congress. Since there was no congressional investment in Clinton's bill, Congress had no allegiance to it, and when the American people smelled a rat, no one was willing to support it. Now, no one in Congress is willing to walk the plank for health care reform since the people still smell that rat. President Obama has wasted a lot of time and political capital on an journey that was almost doomed from the start, an almost quixotic quest to where no president had gone before. There is a reason why other presidents have failed to enact health care reform: The American voters don't want anything that approaches a government take-over of the health care system!
Time to face the facts.
Obama may be a nice guy, but hey...
ReplyDeleteFour years ago, people were saying to vote for Ted Strickland because he is a nice guy. I heard this from many people (some were Republicans). My answer became, "My dad is nice guy, too. But, he has no business running for Governor." Why do we think it's a good idea to elect people based on their likability or their ability to give a good speech? Let's think and study a while before we decide to cast a vote.