Reply #51: No, he isn't ...

[Cosmocat]

and it was not a "miscalcuation" to take on health care reform, as can not be debated as we have seen it played out, was the BIG battle here.

frankly, that he had to deal with the stimulus first was bad enough. he had to tackle this with every last bit of political "capital" he had. He never would have been able to get it done had he put any other major policy initiative in front of it.

People are looking at November 2010 through the Novemeber 2009 lense - which is pretty darn mucked up from this battle. When they get the health care bill passed, the whole dynamic changes A LOT ... Getting the bill passed brings back as least some of the burnt up capital ...

Truman, I think it was, was the first president in modern times to take it on, and every one of them failed. It won't be what WE know is the best solution (universal) but it WILL be the first reform of the system we have had since medicade ...

If he gets this passed by the State of the Union, the books are clean going into the new year ...