Obamacare passed, now, AP says, Obama Must Sell it, Huh?
This wonderful piece of “analysis” begins an AP piece which led Yahoo! as I was having my late-night yogurt snack before bed:
The initial blush of President Barack Obama’s health care triumph immediately gives way to a sober political reality — he must sell the landmark legislation to an angry and unpredictable electorate, still reeling from the recession.
Um, wasn’t he supposed to do that selling before pushing the bill through the House. And didn’t the people turn against the bill as he was hawking his big-government package?
“Voters,” AP National Political Writer Liz Sidoti writes, “may not buy it.”
May not buy it? Liz, you seen the polls? They haven’t bought it. I mean, just a few paragraphs down, you do quote a poll:
Ahead of the vote, a Gallup poll showed more Americans believe the measure will make things worse rather than better for the country as a whole and for them personally. And most polls show most people don’t like the plan although some surveys showed Americans giving high marks to individual elements.
So, maybe that’s the reason, as you report that, “Voters are furious. They hate Washington. They also detest incumbents.” I mean you might want to ask yourself something before penning a piece of analysis, if voters detest incumbents, why is it that only Democratic incumbents seem to be facing tough reelections when every Senate Republican running for re-election looks safe and the only House Republican looking vulnerable represents a district Obama carried by a margin of 3-to-1?
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Fortunately I work for a company that has a great product to sell so I can talk to potential customers, look them in the eye and know that what I’m telling them is the truth. In business, if you lose your reputation, you and your business are sunk.
So, exactly how does Obama sell this?
Comment by NebraskaPatriot — March 22, 2010 @ 10:28 am - March 22, 2010
NebraskaPatriot nails it. How does anyone sell “this.” We don’t have any idea what this amorphous pudding of promises, denials and demagoguery actually is. Is it health care reform, insurance reform, health care entitlement, government management of the health care industry, a forced mandate to pay private insurance company premiums no matter what they may be, an incredible expansion of Medicaid, a contraction of Medicare, more free and low cost meds, etc. or what?
Of course, william and gillie and Levi and Tano and willie and gilliam and Levite and Tanneau and lillie and Leviam and Taniam and Guano and tillie and sapsucker and Phil will all say “this” is perfectly clear because The Won speeched and teleprompted the sheeple until their eyes bled.
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Sell what? He’ll sign the senate bill asap, he’ll tell congress to shut up about their resolution bill, and he’ll immediately start on new laws to curtail and limit our freedoms.
Comment by Leah — March 22, 2010 @ 11:25 am - March 22, 2010
Tim Lear reported that among the applause and hugs when the Obama care passed “the AP correspondent got carried away himself”. So much for unbiased reporting from AP.
Comment by John W — March 22, 2010 @ 12:33 pm - March 22, 2010
Geraldo Rivera was giddy with delight over the House passage/ramrodding of ObamaCare. So what if a majority of Americans have said for months that they don’t want this, have been engaged by the thousands in protests and townhall meetings, in phoning Congress so much last week the phones were jammed for days? So what if few people in Congress know what’s in the bill? So what the Pelosi strong-armed, cajoled, bribed elected congress critters to sell their souls for a few tax payer dollars? THIS IS HISTORY!
Geez, it’s the reelection nightmare of Barack Obama all over again… know nothing about the guy, but I’ll vote for him anyway since I don’t want to appear to be a racist and hey, THIS IS HISTORY!
Buyer’s remorse deja vu…
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