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Healthcare - Under The Bus?

President Obama has started sending out clear signals that he is now willing to acquiesce to Republican demands to forgo the public option in healthcare reform. And to make matters even worse, Obama’s administration is now actually looking forward to a “Sister Souljah” showdown with liberal Democrats who are pushing for Obama to keep his campaign promises and refuse to support reform without a public option. Obama’s willingness to trash his own base has bewildered many of his supporters. “It’s simply amazing that the strategy of trashing the base has now plunged Obama to 49 percent in the polls, reinvigorated a near-dead Republican party, split the once-unified Democratic party, and put the President’s number one policy agenda in peril, and yet some in the White House think it’s worked so well, they need to ramp it up some more. They don’t seem to realize that the debate isn’t over some arcane provision of legislation; it’s over whether the President has the character needed to lead our country. Every time Team Obama has picked a fight with the left, they’ve lost, and the public perception of the president’s character has suffered as a result. Americans don’t respect someone who betrays their friends. If the President thinks trashing the very people who got him into office is going to save his presidency, it’s going to be a very ugly next couple of months, and a rather ugly four years for the Democratic Party.” John Aravosis from AmericaBlog. (via The New York Times)



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