Tom Maguire has some thoughts on the latest Obama health-care strategy:
This is classic Obama, who has made a career of positioning himself as the voice of calm reason intermediating between the loonies of the left (Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright) and the crazies of the right (Sen. Tom Coburn, his unrepentant racist grandmother). Obama will want to assure moderates and centrists that he is truly one of them by pitching some part of the Pelosi-Reid agenda aside.
However! We will see if the “Fool me once” rule is invoked by the target centrist audience. If it is, the result for Obama could be disastrous – if he manages to anger lefties without placating moderates, he may end up losing more support than he gains.
I think that’s the most likely outcome at this point. I like it.
Unfortunately, I still see the legislature as a group of evil power-hungry clowns who would go through with it anyway, even more sneakily, and figure it wouldn’t matter because they aren’t in danger of being thrown out of office this particular year and their voters would forget.
I won’t stop feeling ill and nervous until the thing is dead and cold and buried.