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  1. The phrase “bully pulpit” comes to mind, but not in the sense that Teddy Roosevelt used it.

  2. Obama goes to the center or goes to the bunker. So the bunker it is. Not that I’m surprised.

    The interesting thing is that Obama is not only doubling down on his health care position, he is doubling down on himself as the The Anointed One who can say, “Make it so,” and thus it comes into being.

    Risking the latter may be more dangerous to Obama than the former.

    Obama is playing for high stakes. Conceivably he could sweep up all the marbles; he could also lose everything.

  3. If low taxes, dogged determination to live, and praying for miracles, isn’t a good enough health plan for everyone, then what is?

  4. The shine is off of the One. Accusations of his ill preparedness to be president weren’t just picky insults.

  5. Now Obama is slagging everyone who disagrees with him.

    This is red meat for his base, but who is persuaded to change their position?

    Now the Big Lie: Nothing will change for you if you like your insurance. Repeated twice.

  6. Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close.

    So there’s the strategy. Crash the economy, and blame it on lack of health care reform.

    Obama knows that his health care bill is deader than dog food, so he’s trying to wring some benefit from its demise: the deficit will grow, families will go bankrupt, and businesses will close in any case, thanks to his policies, so he might as well lay those problems off on the failure of his bill(s).

  7. What a crappy, juvenile speech. His speechwriter really does sound 27 years old…..

    If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out.

    Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing….. more will die as a result (of our do-nothing, nothing-doing, apparently). We know these things to be true.

    Such utter, utter bullshit. No, we do not “know these things to be true”.

    The whole thing was just stunning in it’s complete misrepresentation of the opposition and pie-in-the-sky promises.

    He built a straw man and beat the shit out of it in front of congress, engaged in some scare-tactics and doom-mongering and then beat up his opponents for using scare-tactics and doom-mongering.

    I’m calling you out, Obama.

    Of course Nyomythus:
    So far, so good for Obama – thus far he is selling it.

    You gigantic ass: are you just obtuse or are you smoking the hopium. Snap out of it man! It’s concentrated pablum with a chaser of ill-will. I know you aren’t this stupid.

  8. If low taxes, dogged determination to live, and praying for miracles, isn’t a good enough health plan for everyone, then what is?

    Well, shit; it sure beats high taxes, self-slaughter and existential angst.

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  11. nyom wrote, “So far, so good for Obama – thus far he is selling it.

    Yep. And remember the experience Obama sold you on. He ran his own campaign! He ran something. You sell easily…

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