Short version of Obama’s real message from the Health Care Summit:
“We made our back door deals, with Big Pharma, with private hospitals (which means no public option), with Republicans, with ConservaDems.
Now we’re going to have a public conversation to let you know how stupid and mean the Republicans are.
Now that we’ve taken off the table what most Americans are in favor of, and kept in what most Americans don’t want, we’ll allow “the people” to make up their own minds.”
And then there’s all the noise and racket from the OFA’ers saying “pass the bill! pass the bill! We’ll fix it later!”
OFA is the DLC. OFA does not exist to advocate good policy but to support Obama’s plans. OFA will not revisit health care reform. OFA will gear up to support whatever is next on Obama’s agenda.
And the same thing will happen again and again, with each issue, immigration, national security, the economy, education. We’ll be told that legislation is ugly and messy and hooray! At least Dems are better than Republicans! As the back door deals go on and on, and once again no one listens to the people.
And Obama speaks of transparency. Yep, we get transparency only after all the back door deals have been made, and that “transparency” is nothing but public relations. Plouffe is now there to make sure of it.
I don’t think it takes a genius to debate Republicans and come off looking pretty good.
I’d sure like to see Obama publicly speak and debate with the Left. I don’t think he’d find it as easy to come off looking pretty good.
So of course that will not happen.
Folks are hurting. They’re losing their jobs, their homes, their health. I don’t think Plouffe is going to find it so easy to spin Obama’s “accomplishments” in the face of real suffering of the middle class. I doubt most of those folks even watched the Health Care Summit.
But hey, “we’re better than the Republicans!”