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POTUS Clearing Wreckage

By John Batchelor on July 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM in Current Affairs

Out with the Old.  
POTUS in New Jersey on a steamy day with Governor Jon Corzine, making a boilerplate speech that is heavy on blaming the old ways and crushingly heavier on the radiant future of clean energy and clean jobs and clean healthcare and clean education and clean financial regulations.  The speech lacks the verisimilitude of a POTUS dealing with the one element that signifies between elections, Congress.

POTUS is in campaign mode. Why? Who is voting for his agenda? New Jersey is voting for Corzine’s performance, and that means it is voting on one of those state governments from the bad old days before POTUS. Out with the old includes out with Corzine. Maybe it does not come to the White House that Corzine was elected in the first run because he was a famous Goldman, Sachs boss. Also, in this video, POTUS leans very hard into bloviating. Not very cooling. The shouting tells me that negotiations in Congress are on a rocky road:

“Once we clear away the wreckage….investing in the clean energy jobs of the future… controlling healthcare costs that are driving our nation into debt… we’re gonna get healthcare reform done… financial regulation reform done… thank ya, God Bless ya, God bless ya…”

White House Politburo.
My source tells me that the Poliburo that runs the Administration is ready and eager to make any deal to get a healthcare bill, to trade anything away including the word “health.”  They want something that they can add to POTUS slight resume.  First he is elected POTUS then he must go looking to collect credits that can get him elected POTUS.  Congress can smell how much the White House wants the deal.  Politburo will take a total partisan vote, Democrats over Republicans.  The blinking that you hear is the Democrats who know how vulnerable their marginal members are to next year when the price tag climbs, jobs do not recover, and the Obama administration is stuck with sour polling.  Only way for the small midterm electorate to express frustration is to vote out the 49 Dem members of the House who won in McCain-voting districts.  Now you can guess why POTUS is shouting about the wreckage.  It could be a  vision of wreckage to come.