Panic
By John Batchelor on March 17, 2010 at 2:55 PM in Current Affairs
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Hoyer does not have 216 on St. Patrick’s Day, and this brings a nervous grin from Minority Whip Cantor. Source writes that the Democrats are boasting they have 211 as of Wednesday morning.
Since no one who has the count knows if it is accurate, since it is theory until the day of, this means that the majority remains unconvinced of the argument, awaiting the next pivot.
Best source remarks that the Democrats are boasting of 211 because they do not have it, and are gaming their own members.
Word last eve that there is trouble with the final cost, and Big Pharma was dragooned to Rahm Emanuel at the White House to hand over more cash give-backs.
The score looks to be unhappy making, and note that Harry Reid is announcing only a partial score of pieces of the reconciliation sidecar. The CBO does not fib, but it can only plug in the assumptions that are sent over. All the assumptions have not been assembled, and the one that have been may be getting swollen costs. Who knows?
This is a major problem. Not only is there no transparency — but also the guys with the bill don’t know what the bill is or costs. Hilarious.
Note that the video includes another “Queen for a Day” healthcare nightmare that somehow will be fixed if and when we pay more for less. Okay. POTUS preaches to the choir like no one since Jim Wright. Note that the choir behind POTUS is getting better, like a Coke commercial for who likes the “Real Thing,”or a GM commercial about who is ready to go with the new dream car (no wheels, no engine, no gas, no coasts, no car, just walk!).
The OFA is off course and doesn’t know how to get back on the main road. It is as if a posse of strangers swerved into the mainstream for a few months (August to November, 2008) and since then have drifted back to their normal triteness.
Now they are frustrated that we do not hear them. Retail politics is about listening to the voters, not the voters listening to you. POTUS is deaf.
POTUS sailed into the White House without an education in retail politics.
Assertion is not persuasion. Shrug. And telling old wives tales is not leadership. Shrug.
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