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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (320295)	8/19/2009 4:19:34 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	5 Recommendations Respond to of 793955

"I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform." "It's a mystifying thing," he added. "We're forgetting why we are in this." Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue. "It took on a life of its own," he said Someone at Patterico quoted these lines, and suggested that White House staffers should really avoid the word "Waterloo." But I'm mystified that they are mystified. They didn't expect the left to be attached to the public option? When without the public option, you might not get to single payer at all? I thought they just didn't understand conservatives, but it turns out they don't understand their own base either! Does the Obama White House favor any policy as a policy, or just as a kind of political trophy? And if Obama doesn't care that much about the policy, why the hell didn't he craft something moderate enough to pass? Because his original plan was to jam a left-wing bill through in three weeks, and he decided not to change the plan even though conditions had become adverse? How stupid was that! The scary thing is that his plan might have worked, if he had tried it in February and if the economy had been in good shape. The scarier thing is that his plan might still work in some form.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (320295)	3/18/2010 2:00:10 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793955

Health-care bill not yet a law, but Republicans already organizing to repeal it By Perry Bacon Jr. - Washington Post 03/17/10 at 6:57 PM FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to discuss the introduction of legislation to enact a one-year earmark moratorium and a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment. Over the past year, DeMint has morphed from a relatively unknown Southern Republican into a national champion of conservative activists. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File) Even as House Democrats search for the votes to send the bill to President Obama, dozens of Republican lawmakers and candidates have signed a pledge to back an effort to repeal the bill, should the GOP take control of either house of Congress after this fall’s elections. Started by the conservative activist group Club for Growth, the “Repeal It” movement first won the backing in January of some of the most conservative Republicans in Congress, such as “tea party” favorite Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). It has since expanded to include some of the party’s Senate candidates in liberal-leaning states such as New Hampshire and Illinois. Congressional Republicans are currently battling the Democrats over the House procedures they could use to pass the health-care bill. But they are promising this fall to continue the spirited debate over the substance of the bill that has dominated the last year on Capitol Hill. And the repeal will likely be a key issue, even as lawmakers on both sides acknowledge any repeal would be highly unlikely as long as President Obama remains in office, as he could veto any such legislation. Full story: 44 – Health-care bill not yet a law, but Republicans already organizing to repeal it Read more: dailycaller.com