First, the always-insightful Dan Froomkin says he won’t be surprised at all if we eventually see Obama the pushover on national healthcare. House-Senate conference committee serving as the ultimate smoke-filled room to put new life into the current dysfunctional system, thereby pushing real reform even further away.
Froomkin’s old employer, the Washington Post, more circumspectly talks about Obama being driven to the defensive on national healthcare.
But, the GOP shouldn’t exult in any of this. New polling shows the Congressional GOP getting zero traction from Congressional Democrats’ slide.
Meanwhile, George Soros is reportedly ready to pony up $5 million to make national healthcare happen. Of course, we saw what that did for John Kerry in 2004.
Finally, Stephen Hawking, still alive in Great Britain and with its single-payer healthcare system after more than three decades with ALS, refutes ’wingers’ claims of “government-mandated euthanasia.”
That said, back to Froomkin. I suspect he’s right. And, the question is, will this be a “failure” from Obama’s failing to take the lead on this issue, from Congress, early on, like LBJ on Medicare? Or will this be “reality,” because Obama wasn’t behind this, except for verbiage, all along?
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