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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (17198)	4/22/2010 10:13:33 AM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 42652

ObamaCare Author Bails To K-Street As Obama Settles In At All-Time Low That's no bounce, it's a drop-kick waiting to happen. Obama served up the pass it and they will come kool-aid and Democrats drank it. Now we get to watch them drop like flies in November. "President Barack Obama's approval rating hovers at an all-time low. The White House had predicted passage of the health care overhaul would boost his fortunes, but that has not been the case, and that legislation itself remains decidedly unpopular," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. But it worked out okay for some people, as with an ObamaCare co-author and Pelosi aide who has cashed-out to K-Street. From Akin Gump’s press release: Arshi Siddiqui, senior policy advisor and counsel to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), will join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in the policy practice in Washington…. Since joining Rep. Pelosi’s leadership staff in 2003, Ms. Siddiqui has provided counsel on numerous legislative initiatives, including the historic comprehensive health insurance reform legislation, the economic recovery package, and the financial recovery and stimulus bills. Her work on health-care was so important, Pelosi thanked her by name on the House floor. riehlworldview.com

To: RetiredNow who wrote (17198)	4/22/2010 10:21:45 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 42652

The president got health care reform passed, and it may turn out to be his single most important foreign policy achievement. LOL! I sure hope this isn't going to be the case.... Sounds like Tom Friedman kind of outsmarted himself on this one... :)

To: RetiredNow who wrote (17198)	4/22/2010 11:08:26 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Our enemies surely noticed, too. You don’t have to be Machiavelli to believe that the leaders of Iran and Venezuela shared the barely disguised Republican hope that health care would fail and, therefore, Obama’s whole political agenda would be stalled and, therefore, his presidency enfeebled. He would then be a lame duck for the next three years and America would be a lame power. These enemies HAVE to be confounded. What to do? We have a grossly incompetent president running a grossly incompetent foreign policy that is helpful in every conceivable way to foreign interests. Then, we have an effort by the Republicans to bring him down. I suspect Ahmedenijad thanks Allah daily. What could be better? A US president who doesn't know what he's doing, Republicans who want him to fail EVEN AT THAT! For our enemies it is a near-perfect situation.