Senator Joe Lieberman, who speaks for the bank owners as well as anyone, appeared on one of the weekend talk shows to say that Obama tried valiantly to fix health care, "...but he took it on at a very difficult time that was not of his making. In other words, we're in a recession."
Senator Richard Lugar agreed, saying, "I would advise the president that the bringing up of the health-care situation in the midst of recession, the unemployment problems that Sen. Lieberman described, was a mistake. And therefore he ought to postpone the decision." !!!
The cryptocracy mis-calculated. They thought that the crisis atmosphere created by them in the economy would be a good time to change health care. After all their standard operation procedure is to create a crisis and then profit from it, by making changes they want and pocketing the profit. They figured people would be more amenable to change in the middle of a crisis.
They figured wrong. The whole thing tended to backfire on them. The public became better educated about what was really occurring and decided to do something about it.
So, the cryptocracy is retreating to regroup their forces for another day.
But, beware of the last minute maneuvers to get some part of Obama's program passed. Listen to Lieberman: "There's no reason we have to do it all now, but we do have to get started. And I think the place to start is cost, health delivery reform and insurance market reforms."
In other words, Lieberman thinks the place to start is by passing the entire Obama program. But, it's just words at this point. He is just setting the table for the effort to salvage something.
Obama will not have much time to devote to saving his health care legislation with Afghanistan blowing up in his face.
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