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TOPIC: "It's Not Rahm's Fault. It's Obama's Fault." (Slate.com 1/22/10)
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It's Not Rahm's Fault. It's Obama's Fault.


On bloggingheads, Bob Wright and I have a full and frank discussion of "curve-bending," rationing, "death panels," etc., and whether the health reform bills are objectionable on those grounds. I was in control at all times, I swear. ...

Have I mentioned that the point isn't that I'm right or Bob's right--the point is that this is an entire debate we didn't need to have right now. Obama could have proposed a bill that expanded coverage and raised taxes to pay for it. True, that would have pissed off voters who really don't like tax increases. Instead, he proposed raising taxes and instituting some ominously vague, to-be-determined, 'scientific' and anti-democratic restraints on health care treatments. This successfully pissed off voters who really don't like tax increases and voters--mainly older voters--worried about being denied treatments. The combination of losing the anti-government voters and losing seniors may prove fatal. ...

If it does, it won't be David Axelrod's fault, and it won't be Rahm Emanuel's fault. It won't even be Peter Orszag's fault. It's Obama's fault. Obama's the one who fell for Orszag's Laffer-curve-like, win-win, 'this will save money' line, and who raised the issue at every opportunity in the middle of 2009. It's Obama who became infatuated with--and ordered his staff  to read--Atul Gawande's amorphous New Yorker curve-bending argument and Ron Brownstein's even-less-convincing-than-it-seemed-at-the-time cheerleading piece. It was Obama who eagerly let himself get suckered into discussing end-of-life rationing in the pages of the New York Times.

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-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 24th of January 2010 10:46:47 AM

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Nice to see Slate realizing that.wink

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Alex, I was thinking so too. It is interesting to read some of the far left sources lately.. LOL It is almost as if they do not know which way to turn.. Even after they are critical, they leave it on a positive note, with hope... and it is almost as if they have nowhere else to go.

I hope the President realizes that the only way to move ahead is to move to the Center. It positions him well to succeed, frankly.. as he can put the blame on #41... and take the credit for doing bipartisan work.. 60 was truly a curse for him.. and #41 will liberate him from that.

But yet, what a read in Slate!!

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