Politico notes how President Barack Obama continues to play a waiting game on national healthcare. Meanwhile, “Blue Dog” Democrats are antsy, because the House has already reported a bill out of committee, and they’re not wanting to go on record about the bill in its current form.
Doesn’t anybody in the White House, or Democratic leadership in either house of Congress, see a problem here?
First, of course, is Obama’s waiting game vs. leadership.
Second is the fact that the House “went first” on Waxman-Markey. Why is it rushing the process on its side on national healthcare?
I don’t necessarily agree with all the Blue Dog substance concerns, but on the timing and votes matters, they’re absolutely right.
That’s why Ceci Connolly’s Washington Post article earlier this week, comparing Obama to LBJ on Medicare/Medicaid, was so funny. Unless he’s doing all sorts of unreported arm-twisting, and in a style totally un-Kumbaya, that’s just not true.
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