Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill
After insisting for a year that failure was not an option, President Barack Obama is now acknowledging his health care overhaul may die in Congress.
His remarks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Thursday night sounded contradictory at times, complicating congressional leaders' effort to revive health care legislation as Democrats hunger for guidance from the White House. Even while saying he still wanted to get the job done, Obama counseled going slow, and bowed to new political realities. Democrats no longer command a filibuster-proof Senate majority, and voters and lawmakers are far more concerned with jobs and the economy than with enacting sweeping and expensive changes to the health system.
"I think it's very important for us to have a methodical, open process over the next several weeks, and then let's go ahead and make a decision," Obama said Thursday night.
"And it may be that ... if Congress decides we're not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not," the president said. "And that's how democracy works. There will be elections coming up and they'll be able to make a determination and register their concerns one way or the other during election time."
Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill - Yahoo! News
This issue is what his entire campaign was about! Oh yeah, that and "change". Now we get to see the switch in Congress and Senate going from Democratic control to Republican.....and once again it'll be the same ol' shit wrapped in a different color.
Out of 305 million people is this REALLY the best we have to offer to lead our country?:mad:
Have a good one!:s4:
Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill
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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Out of 305 million people is this REALLY the best we have to offer to lead our country?
Absolutely not!
The problem is that most of us didn't see a better choice among the candidates that were available :(
Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill
maybe, just maybe, these morons are starting to get a clue. maybe they're beginning to understand that what the american people don't want is sweeping legislation designed to make over the country, but adjustments to the existing system that fix our problems instead of creating new ones. we watched as our government indebted our great grandchildren with an ill-conceived bailout that merely staved off the inevitable and we're not about to allow them to dig us deeper into that hole with even more legislation too massive for anyone to understand that only hands more power to the very folks who have failed us in the past.
