Obama Weighs Shift in Health Plan, Seeking G.O.P. Backing

[BurtWorm]

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and ROBERT PEAR 5:06 PM ET

With Democrats reeling from a Senate loss in Massachusetts, President Obama signaled that he might be willing to set aside his goal of achieving near-universal health care.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/health/policy/21health.html?hp



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[villager]

1. Obama weighs completely alienating potential Democratic voters, winning GOP backing

n/t

[clear eye]

12. I guess his advisors would rather do anything other than make common cause w/ progressives.

And the President will suffer for their stubborn focus on corporate money. He hasn't got a single progressive political advisor to offer an alternative that he could even weigh against it.

[DURHAM D]

2. i'm going to hurl

[tekisui]

3. Blech. Shame on you Obama.

Stay away from those repukes. Will you never learn?

[MannyGoldstein]

4. More Bipartisanship!!!

This is fucking nuts.

[Gin]

16. definition of insanity.....doing the same thing over and over but

expecting a different outcome..he has tried the bi-partisan approach ad-nauseum....time to try something new.

sorry to say I think this policy is useless...they already said they will oppose anything he does...and they have...

the Mr. nice guy is not working....maybe in an ideal world that would work...but we have a long way to go.

[Hello_Kitty]

5. O. M. G.

It's like one of those slo-mo things where you're like "nooooooooooooooo!!"

[Grand Taurean]

6. Obama doesn't get it.

:eyes:

[ThomWV]

7. Is he out of his fucking mind?

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. It would appear that he is indeed out of his fucking mind. Or something else.

He's one of them? :shrug:

[KonaKane]

8. Way to show that reinvigorated resolve against the GOP, man!

I'm stoked! Yeahhhh baby!

[amborin]

9. how much more appalling can this get? n/t and k&r

[City Lights]

10. That's just swell.

:argh:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. Dump the GOP now before it is too late (don't swim with sharks)

sharks eat you

[msongs]

13. he has been trying to appease repubs all along, and they hate him lololol nt

[mn9driver]

14. I'm seeking a magic sparkle pony.

I haven't found one yet, but I'm sure that if I just keep looking one will show up one of these days.

I was concerned early on that Obama was just a little too committed to the whole idea of reconciliation and post-partisanship. I think he really believed it could happen. As much as I admire him for that, he needs to face reality at this point and open a can of serious whoopass.

Trouble is, I'm not sure he gets it yet...

[Uzybone]

15. Of course there is NOTHING in the story that matches the "seeking GOP backing"

but the MSM is well known for doing this.


"“It is very important to look at the substance of this package and for the American people to understand that a lot of the fear-mongering around this bill isn’t true,” Mr. Obama said in an interview on ABC News. “I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on.”

He continued: “We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don’t, then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families. Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill.”

Mr. Obama’s remarks came as the White House and Democratic congressional leaders fumbled for a way forward with their major health care overhaul, and struggled to digest the reality that their top legislative priority had been derailed by the outcome in Massachusetts.

The White House insisted that Mr. Obama still preferred passage of a far-reaching health care measure, and Democratic leaders said they were weighing their options. But some lawmakers in both parties began calling for a scaled-back bill that could be adopted quickly with bipartisan support."

[budkin]

18. WHAT A LEADER!!!

[ellie]

19. How delusional of him.