On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:28 AM, raunchydog<raunchy...@yahoo.com> wrote: > So Bill, have you called your Congressperson to pledge support for a public > option?
Yes I did. And his aide told me I had called the wrong office. This is the office of one of the main opponents of the health care bill, Bill, he said. Public option is still on the table. Obama has front stage (read Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman) let public option slide. It is alive still and president Obama hasn't started fighting yet. I will definitely admit this president doesn't act like most. Most are out there ahead of the crowd, butting the heads of MCs, gathering public support, threatening MCs (especially Blue Dogs) with loss of national support and his support come their re-nomination, and using the bully pulpit. Obama doesn't use the bully pulpit all that well but he does get things (like a beer party between a cop and a scholar at the WH) done in his own way. The Israelis are complaining that Obama is anti-Semitic in his dealings in the Middle East. Well, score one for Obama, since we've been kissing ass of the Israelis since FDR. Obama, Biden, perhaps your secret lover, the rest of the Cabinet and White House staffers will come out swinging when it's time. And if Obama only gets half a loaf, he's accomplished a lot. When Congress passed the first income tax in 1916, it opened the door. Whatever Obama gets this time around will be a lot. Patton had on his wall, "drag them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow". As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Take the first step. You don't have to see the top of the stairs. Just take the first step." > > Congress is in recess. It would be utterly stupid for >> Obama to waste his energy doing a lot of campaigning on health care >> right now. The president uses TV and Air Force One. No need to hop >> on a private rail car like Harry Truman and do whistle stop >> campaigning. Obama is a smart cookie and he's got some smart staff. >> He's also got a lot of people who voted for him to get health care >> passed. When recess is about to end, expect Obama, Joe Biden, cabinet >> members to be saturating the air waves, flying all over the country >> for town hall meetings and expect a lot of quid pro quo bargaining. >> Obama will get the best deal he can at the time, knowing that once he >> opens the door, it'll be easier to open further and harder to close >> back again. With respect to the mere pittance Obama worked out with >> pharm about lowering prices. Wait until Obama really squeezes their >> gonads to lower more. We have hurricane and swine flu season coming. >> Things to capitalize on. >> >> To paraphrase my favorite philosopher Joe Dimaggio, it ain't over >> until Hilary sings. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong.
