In a
Chuck Todd interview on MSNBC, the President says of the confused and
discouraged, "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this
situation based on assurances they got from me."
Too little too late. To pass his namesake bill, he engaged in what the New York Times then described as "a
process that has at times seemed on the brink of anarchy": with tradeoffs,
concessions and vote buying that ended up in the 2000-page bill that haunts him
today.
Back
then, Barack Obama made himself hostage to get the Act passed and is still
paying ransom today, not only to the GOP but the insurance companies he left in
charge whose antics are causing more problems than the website and that he is
still trying to placate.
In the
Todd interview, he equates those Democrats who wanted a public option with the
wall-to-wall Republican opposition whose votes he never won. That mindset ended
up in the stuffed sausage called Obamacare rather than a slimmed-down bill that
might have started the process of health care reform without lobotomizing it.
On
this issue as so many others, those who admire Barack Obama and sympathize with
the lunacy he has had to endure for almost five year have to question both his temperament
and judgment.
Coming
in front of the TV cameras and sounding sane compared to Republican rants is
not enough. The truth on so many issues is hard, and no amount of reasonable
rhetoric will make it go away.
From
here on, biting the bullet and speaking plainly and forcefully may be the best way to go.
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