Despite clear progress, media declare health care reform nearing "life support

[spanone]

As The Washington Post observed in a July 20 article: "Cable news programs repeatedly declare the president's health care program is teetering or embattled despite a week in which Obama's proposals were endorsed by the doctor and nurses associations and committees in both legislative chambers passed major bills." Indeed, despite passage of health care reform bills by the House Ways and Means Committee, House Education and Labor Committee, and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and endorsements of congressional Democrats' reform efforts by the American Medical Association and American Nurses Association, numerous television pundits have suggested in recent days that Obama's health care plan is in serious jeopardy.

For instance:

On the July 19 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, host David Gregory stated: "Sunday: it's do or die for the president's massive health care reform." Later, Gregory asked Newsweek senior White House correspondent Richard Wolffe, "ake this on. I mean, the conventional wisdom here is that he's on the ropes here on health care. Is that overstated?" Wolffe replied, "No, I think it's a challenge. And the longer it goes on ... delay has always killed health care. So the longer this delays, the worse authority gets."
On the July 19 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Don Lemon asked: "s President Barack Obama's health care plan dead in the water?"

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[OHdem10]

1. Are the Media saying the Blue Dogs have finally decided to bring

down the Democratic Party??

Do you believe the Blue Dogs will bring down Obama and
the Democrats????

[customerserviceguy]

2. Well, let's look rationally at the situation

Even if the rosiest scenario were to come true, we would have a House bill and a different Senate bill passed by each house before the August recess. I'm sure that the barrage of anti-healthcare ads we've seen will become a torrent by that point, and we will have Congresscritters going back to their districts to get an earful from constituent groups that have been frightened by the ads, as well as those interests who have opposed this from the beginning.

I will not be surprised when they come back after Labor Day, and dial back on all that they will be voting for in the next week or two. This was a first hundred days project, any longer than that, and it would be essentially doomed.

[spanone]

3. i've actually seen more 'pro reform' ads in my area....mid tennessee