Saturday, October 10, 2009

Healthcare Reform Jujitsu

The Obama Administration has found renewed momentum, you might say found their first real momentum, with some help from their GOP friends.

Sure, maybe if they don't paint a Hitler mustache on the President or fake out with "death panel" and "kill granny" talk so maybe they're out of touch with the modern Republican Party, or RINOs anyway, but with the moral support (if not fine detail agreement) of ex-office holders like Bill Frist (who, incidentally, I thought was great on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, knocking down the host's ridiculous long-spouted beliefs against flu vaccination and other science-based facts like using pharmaceutical drugs to control hypertension), Bob Dole, Jim Baker, Tommy Thompson, Chuck Hagel and others, Obama's looking more and more like the eventual winner...once again:



In fairly obvious coordination, the DNC hits with a viral ad reiterating the point, albeit less artistically:



While I've had plenty of disagreements with the old guard represented in the list, they sure do look like adults compared to the clowns -- Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, Kyl, Grassley, etc., etc. -- at the Federal level for that Party right now.

Combined with the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office findings this week that the Baucus bill would actually reduce the deficit over time, we're seeing the now classic Obama strong finish. Nobody currently does better in the endgame (or scares their supporters more in the lull along the way) than Obama, and I expect that's what's happening now.

And, once again, I expect that our terrorist enemies will be learning this lesson eventually as well.

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