Lefty Loosey

It sounds like the Pillsbury Showboy has been tuning in to The Axis of Stevil Show! Check out this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XnJ0pQ48oI

 First, bullet points you have heard on my show already.

1. Ed said "Secretary Gates is giving us some 'Bush Talk'". It was The Axis Show that coined the phrase "Why open new doors when you can go through old Gates" to explain the Commander In Crew Chiefs decision to hold Gates over from the Bush Administration.
2. Ed said "The White House is dazed and confused... they don't know what page they're on... they need a plan... they don't have that... they have bullet points". It is I, your host, that has pointed out repeatedly that these people show up every day saying "What are we going to do today?". They have no long term plan.
3. Ed said "Mr. President, you're acting like a Senator. You're not a Senator anymore". Remind anyone of the "On The Job Training Czar" I've been talking about for awhile? (speaking of, stand by for a new segment this weekend)
4. Ed said "Same President, different answer. I don't like it". I did a feature three weeks ago at how many different segments of the left have been lied to by Obama, and it was only a matter of time until he ticked the rest off with some new lies.
5. Ed said "It seems like we've got this shell game going on". See #4 and #2 for confirmation.
6. Ed said "Some of these Democrats seem willing, almost eager, to attack the President". This confirms the point I have made repeatedly about how the smarter Democrats will jump ship the more Obama's poll numbers drop.

Now, for Dead Schultz, the Pillsbury Showboy, to be practically quoting The Axis of Stevil Show, something has to have gone horribly wrong. What is that you ask? Apparently the entire cosmic balance, because I'm following up an Ed Schultz clip with a New York Times article.

Mr. Obama himself sought to play down the significance of the public option at a town-hall-style meeting on Saturday in Grand Junction, Colo., when a university student challenged him on how private insurers could compete with the government.

After strongly defending the public plan, the president suggested that he, too, viewed it as only a small piece of a broader initiative intended to control costs, expand coverage, protect consumers and make the delivery of health care more efficient.

“The public option, whether we have it or we don’t have it, is not the entirety of health care reform,” Mr. Obama said. “This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it.”

For Mr. Obama, giving up on the public plan would have risks and rewards. The reward is that he could punch a hole in Republican arguments that he wants a “government takeover” of health care and possibly win some Republican votes. The risk is that he could alienate liberal Democrats, whose support he will also need to pass a bill.

 Remember when Senator Jim DeMint said "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."  Look at the reaction of leftists like Dead Shultz and ask yourself if he was right. More interestingly, ABC talked about how Obama planned to use that statement to "Rally the troops". Mr. President, how is that working out for you?

 

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Simply put, it isn't. And that's why we are here at a crossroads today where Obama seems to be considering heading down the "No Public Option" path. "Death Panels" have already been pulled from the bill, but that is small potatoes compared to this. Worse yet for Obama, this doesn't come off as him getting hit by a weakened Republican Minority, although I am sure he will try to spin it that way if things continue. It sure beats the alternative. This is Obama getting his clock cleaned by the American people, lead by a true Conservative in Sarah Palin.

 

Here is what some of the Dems have to say about it.

•  “I don’t think it can pass without the public option,” Mr. Dean, who is a physician and a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said on “The Early Show” on CBS. “There are too many people who understand, including the president himself, the public option is absolutely linked to reform,” he said. “You can’t have reform without a public option. If you really want to fix the health-care system, you’ve got to give the public the choice of having such an option.”
• “I believe the inclusion of a strong public plan option in health reform legislation is a must,” Mr. Rockefeller said in a statement. “It is the only proven way to guarantee that all consumers have affordable, meaningful and accountable options available in the health insurance marketplace.”

Outrage on the left, cautious optimism on the right. Not good for Obama either way you cut the deck. This is not time to stop and celebrate, my fellow right wing conspirators. This little reality check should give us the motivation to dig down deep and fight this socialist agenda with everything we have. We can take a break and tip a glass when this attempt at socialist government takeover is... well, to quote old Rhambo... "Dead! Dead! Dead!"