If “Every Argument Has Been Made…”
…The Democrats Lost the Argument
Washington,
Mar 8 -
In last week’s health care speech to end all health care speeches, President Obama declared:
“Every argument has been made. Everything there is to say about health care has been said and just about everybody has said it.” (Remarks, 3/3/10)
And since there is nothing left to say about health care, the President today takes to the podium to recite the same tired arguments for the 800th time…
“In a speech Monday in Philadelphia, Obama will try to persuade the public to back his plan to remake the nation's health care system, while also urging uneasy lawmakers to cast a ‘final vote’ for a massive reform bill in an election year.” (AP, 3/8/10)
Maybe Obama just thinks there’s nothing left for others to say because nobody else’s opinion matters. The 73% of Americans who want the Democrats to either start over from scratch or drop the issue completely are just crazy right-wing astroturfers. President Obama, on the other hand, is the health care decider.
Congressional Democrats’ higher-ups (who usually have easy rides to re-election) are also leaning heavily on their wavering colleagues (who often don’t).
“It's better, these party leaders say, to pass the health care bill and spend the last few months of the 2010 campaign telling voters about the ways it will help them. ‘You've got to go out and sell that product and stop worrying about the process,’ said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. ‘And the president is a very powerful salesman for that product.’” (USA Today, 3/8/10)
Powerful salesman? If this Democrat-only bill was so great and the President was so awesome at selling it, why is this debate still running at full steam more than a year after it began? Why has public support for the Democrats’ plan marched steadily downwards? Why is he giving us more speeches after “everything there is to say about health care has been said?”
Newsflash people – it’s not the message; it’s the product.
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