I never thought that President Obama himself would become part of the problem.
The other day, the President said how he was committed to working with people who have no apparent interest in reforming health care. I'm thinking specifically of how Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently endorsed the odious 'death panel' rumors, and how despite the sickness of these lies, Obama says he is still committed to working in a bipartisan matter with people like Grassley on reform.
Sorry Mr. President, but this is a lost cause and will damn your reform efforts.
When will the President realize that some people simply cannot be reasoned with? And why is Former President Bill Clinton more direct than the current President on fighting the lies and smears about reform?
A few weeks ago, Bill Maher observed how Barack Obama "needed a little George Bush in him." He meant it in the sense that Bush didn't care about bipartisanship when he rammed massive tax cuts for the richest Americas, a bill that gutted clean air standards, two wars, the Patriot Act, repealing Glass-Stegal, and other acts that screwed everything up in this country so royally. If only President Obama showed that kind of guile when he originally brought up health care reform.
So what is my solution? Simple: Screw Bipartisanship. The Republican Party is hell-bent on destroying the Obama Presidency by any means necessary, and that includes killing live-saving health care reform. We know all their tricks too: lies, spin, misinformation, Fox News, you get the idea. As mentioned previously, these people simply cannot be reasoned with, and change is going to have to be forced upon them. They don't realize the country is headed in a different direction now. When they say "The America I grew up in is changing" they're absoultely right. Change is inevitable, especially when something so incredibly broken as our health care system needs to be fixed. Their reactionary clinging to an America that doesn't exist anymore (I'll leave all the race-baiting out of this one) is dangerous and will damn us all if it isn't countered.
Mr. President, don't sell us out.
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I agree that Republicans such as Grassley, who intentionally stalls bills specifically to allow private insurance companies to continue operating at least until after the August recess, are a problem, but even bigger than that is the continuous in-fighting amongst the party itself. If the Democratic Party can't convince the Blue Dogs to cooperate with the rest of the party, then there's no chance of the health care bill making it past the Senate. Unfortunately this is unlikely to happen, given the constituencies of the states in which the Blue Dogs reside.
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