This president is a real slow learner. Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas
Speaking of gambling, President Obama has subpoenaed weary Democrats and disgusted Republicans to a Blair House summit tomorrow for a day-long policy-palooza to be broadcast on C-SPAN for Americans who didnt get enough of the health care reform debate last year.* Obama has decided to wager what little respectability he has left on the hope that the American people will be charmed by his vision of health care reform, will develop amnesia, and will forget everything they hate about the bills passed by Congress last year.
The Associated Press announces that the new proposal released by the President is important, but not as critical as the political skill Obama can apply to an impasse that seems close to hopeless in a pivotal congressional election year.
Hmm * Lets tally up the campaigns Obama has fought and lost using his political skill over the past four months: securing the 2016 Olympics for Chicago, electing Creigh Deeds governor of Virginia, reelecting John Corzine governor of New Jersey, getting UN members to agree to a climate change accord in Copenhagen, and electing Martha Coakley Senator in Massachusetts.* Ohand of course his year-long crusade to sell Congresss health care plan to the public, which resulted in voters increasing their opposition to the plan in direct proportion to the number of syllables Obama emitted in his attempts to explain it.
Obama views the populace as a huddled mass of slow learners to whom he must explicate Congresss monstrous health care legislation over and over until it penetrates their thick skulls. read more »