> Yeah, for instance the biggest overhaul of the healthcare system (Obamacare) happened without really trying.
I was watching during the selling before
the voting for Obamacare, and I concluded
that Obama did next to nothing.
What did happen?
The Dems had both houses of Congress. Senator
Kennedy had long had a team working on healthcare
overhaul and had a plan on the shelf. That plan
got pulled off the shelf, modified, and then
rammed through, e.g., by Pelosi, Reid,
and Emanuel.
For Obama, when he
went to a town hall
to support the bill, he made some remarks
about the costs of an amputation, got his
facts badly wrong, got slapped down by
the American College of Surgeons for
saying things that were "uninformed,
misinformed, just plain wrong, dangerous"
http://www.facs.org/news/obama081209.html
Then Obama essentially quit efforts at public support
of Obamacare.
When a team of Republicans
went to the White House to try to draft
a better bill, Obama was not really
engaged.
Obama signed Obamacare, but he had next
to nothing to do with getting it passed.
Obama didn't have to work to get Obamacare
passed: Kennedy's old plan,
Pelosi, Reid, Emanuel, and
the Dem majority were enough.
That's just the way it was.
I was watching during the selling before the voting for Obamacare, and I concluded that Obama did next to nothing.
What did happen? The Dems had both houses of Congress. Senator Kennedy had long had a team working on healthcare overhaul and had a plan on the shelf. That plan got pulled off the shelf, modified, and then rammed through, e.g., by Pelosi, Reid, and Emanuel.
For Obama, when he went to a town hall to support the bill, he made some remarks about the costs of an amputation, got his facts badly wrong, got slapped down by the American College of Surgeons for saying things that were "uninformed, misinformed, just plain wrong, dangerous"
Then Obama essentially quit efforts at public support of Obamacare.When a team of Republicans went to the White House to try to draft a better bill, Obama was not really engaged.
Obama signed Obamacare, but he had next to nothing to do with getting it passed.
Obama didn't have to work to get Obamacare passed: Kennedy's old plan, Pelosi, Reid, Emanuel, and the Dem majority were enough. That's just the way it was.