Andrew Sullivan believes that the President still has a strategic advantage in his bid to pass health care “reform,” but admits Obama is in tactical trouble. To explain why, he lists a variety of peripheral issues, then gets to the real problem:
But the most critical part, in my view, is the public understanding that after two massive bank bailouts and a vast stimulus package, with two still-intractable wars, the US cannot afford even the modest 10-year trilliondollar package Obama is proposing.
In other words, the voters don’t believe he can pay for the bloody thing, and the President’s attempts to reassure the public on this point have been (to put it kindly) unconvincing. As for his congressional allies, they simply gibber when asked where the money will come from. The following example (via Michelle Malkin) is typical:
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Let’s tell them to use the billions of dollars that we allegedly saved by tobacco taxes and anti-smoking campaigns. They must be rolling in dough from all those savings.
Posted 07 Sep 2009 at 1:26 am ¶I think the only sensible thing to do is give away another $1.7 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy. Don’t you agree?
Posted 07 Sep 2009 at 7:59 am ¶Marc, that is a great idea! Allow those that produce and provide employment to retain more of their capital so they can expand their operations. Good to see you coming around.
Posted 08 Sep 2009 at 10:48 am ¶Post a Comment