kentuck
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Sun Sep-06-09 06:40 PM
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We can predict what Obama will say Wednesday night. |
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If we have been paying attention for the last few months, we can predict what the President will say and do Wednesday night. But, it doesn't matter because the Republicans still will not trust him.
However, the President will make a strong pitch for bi-partisanship and compromise. He will attempt to lay out the problem with health-care in simple language. He will tell everyone that we cannot continue on the road we are going. We have no choice but to reform the system. He will say that he believes the best way to bring down the skyrocketing prices of health coverage is to have a public option, which will create the competition needed to control the rising prices of the insurance companies. In a step to compromise with the Republicans, he will say that we should be able to work out a compromise on tort reform. He will demonstrate that he is not only willing to piss off the left wing of his Party, but he is also willing to piss off the lawyers.
He will offer many examples of why reform is needed. He will tell of people who have lost their jobs and no longer have any insurance. He will tell the Congress about folks being diagnosed with threatening diseases and dropped from coverage. He will tell them of folks with pre-existing conditions denied coverage. He will have examples of people losing their homes and savings because of a catastrophic illness in the family.
He will give numbers, plenty of numbers, showing that we spend more than any industrialized country in the world on health care. He will show the different ways that we can save money, including computerized medical records, etc.
In the end, he will go more than half-way with the Republicans. He will demand that Congress come up with a bill that he can sign and that will give help to those Americans that need it. He will put the ball in the Republicans court.
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Sun Sep-06-09 06:49 PM
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1. I bet his focus will be pre-existing conditions and bankruptcy |
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and that the bill we get will deal with these two health care problems.
Ya know what? It would be a victory just to get this much from the corporations..
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Sun Sep-06-09 06:50 PM
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2. Maybe he should just put the ball through the basket. |
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Sun Sep-06-09 06:51 PM
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3. I am AFRAID that you are pretty much right, except I think he may also surrender a public option. |
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But, all in all, I think he likely will be intelligent and reasonable and generous and WILL "put the ball in the Republicans court".
The Republicans, though, won't bother trying to put the ball in play. They will label it a "socialist ball" and will encourage teabaggers to riddle it with their Glocks and AR-15s. Then, they will set it on fire and blame Obama and the "liberal Democrat socialists" for the noxious smoke.
WHY ARE WE EVEN TALKING TO THESE HATEFUL, GREEDY, SELF-CENTERED IGNORAMUSES?
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Sun Sep-06-09 07:04 PM
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5. They will say it's nothing new because all they'll settle for is complete capitulation |
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If kentuck is right, then we're really back to square one and big fat zero. Obama needs to have a serious Plan B to Wednesday. Some sort of lightening bolt.
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Sun Sep-06-09 06:53 PM
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4. Here is what POLITICO gleaned from conversations with top aides: |
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Edited on Sun Sep-06-09 06:54 PM by 1Hippiechick
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Sun Sep-06-09 07:21 PM
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6. I like that better. But the aide who said this White House does not triangulate... |
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should let Rahm Emanuel know that. How is it that he leaks like a sieve and still has a job.
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