Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care
from the NYT
So I believed I would be writing about the Super Bowl this morning. Not that I was excited about that possibility, but let's face it. We're America. We care about Haiti when it makes us look good and we care about football and celebrities the rest of the time. In any case, to my surprise the top story on NYT this morning was about Obama and another showdown between him and the Republicans. Obama really is a genius in his own way, and that's because Bipartisan nothing. This is about as Bipartisan as anything in politics (which is nothing at all). Really, this is an opportunity for Obama to make a bunch of old white dudes look like idiots, which is smart because that is probably what Obama can do best (and they probably are). To be fair, he also has to do it because he is really bad at politics as far as his first year is concerned. He can't bully his own party, so he might as well bully the opposition party. And... if all else fails, I recommend playing the race card (I really hope he doesn't).
Moreover (for writing only), I'm bothered that this health care nonsense isn't done with. I'm under the impression that politicians are paid to do something (mistake #1... not the paid part, the doing something part). Change the bill, cut things out, present it in parts, do something! Sure, Obama and the Democrats would love a public option, expansion of medicaid (great time magazine article about medicaid expansion and state costs in TIME), and the ending of insurance company exempting patients with pre-existing conditions. All of those things won't fly by in one bill (at least right now). However, I could see one of them getting through... the pre-existing condition thing. Honestly Congress, I bet some people could use that part right now. Stop having press conferences, lunch, and state of the union addresses and do it.
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