Front-page lead:
"Bolder Obama may press other big parts of agenda" by Michael Kranish and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | March 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — Buoyed by a historic victory, President Obama and the Democrats hope to quickly tap the momentum from passage of their big health care bill to advance other initiatives on their political agenda, including curbing greenhouse gases, imposing new rules on Wall Street, and overhauling immigration laws.
I don't know how you "tap momentum" when you force something down someones throat.
Related: Health Bill Makes MSM Monitor Sick
But success on any of those fronts is by no means assured, despite the popping corks and bumping fists....
Oh, back to the political fooleys.
Mustering this same display of strength on other issues would be difficult, according to lawmakers and political experts.
Obama and Democratic leaders would need support from Republicans who have fought him bitterly in recent weeks. And they could face opposition from Democrats unwilling to take another controversial vote that could hurt their reelection chances.
“My own view is there’s only so many ‘profile in courage’ votes that the average House or Senate member wants to take,’’ said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, co-founder of research firm Public Opinion Strategies. “This health care bill has used up enormous political capital.’’
After what they just did over the will of the people there is none left.
The safer bet for Democrats, in this view, would be to focus on smaller, job-producing spending bills in the months before the 2010 mid-term elections.
Throwing us chump-change scraps after years of inaction and false concern isn't going to change s***, DemocraPs.
Unlike the overall health care measure, which had already passed the Senate before the arrival of Senate Republicans’ “41st vote,’’ Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, the legislation on climate change, Wall Street, and immigration have yet to win Senate passage.
Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who lost the presidential election to Obama and is now facing a reelection fight, set the tone for his party this week when he said in a radio interview that the GOP would not cooperate with the White House this year on other measures after the health care passage.
“They have poisoned the well in what they’ve done and how they’ve done it,’’ McCain said.
Similarly, Senator Judd Gregg, the New Hampshire Republican who briefly was Obama’s nominee for Commerce secretary, said in an interview yesterday that there was little hope of progress on other bills “if they pursue the health care template, which was to take the bill into a back room.’’
If you WANT CONTROL of CONGRESS than you will STAY TRUE to that PLEDGE, Repugs!
BLOCK EVERYTHING -- please!
Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat, however, held out hope for passing a climate bill, among others.
“Some people will be angry and fight for the sake of fighting,’’ Kerry said in an interview. “Do people really want to play more politics with national priorities? At some point the Republican Party will have to decide if it’s for something.’’
Oh, I am FOR plenty of THINGS, John!
Like an END to the MASS-MURDERING WARS and OCCUPATIONS over LIES!!!
Like a DECENT SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH SYSTEM that the GOOD COUNTRIES of the world have!!
Like the END of the ISRAELI SIEGE of GAZA!
And those are only three of the things I am for.
Sorry I don't have time to elaborate further, you embarrassing PoS.
Obama is set to go to Iowa Thursday to build public support for the health care measure, which was approved 219-212 by the House late Sunday night.
I've had it with the POLITICKING on TAXPAYERS DIME!
Why would he have to build public support for such a rousing victory?
Btw, what is the CARBON FOOTPRINT on that anyway?
Despite widespread public skepticism — and, Democrats say, confusion — about what the bill will do, the Obama administration is confident that they can assure Americans that the overhaul will improve their lives and make delivery of their health care more secure.
“After the president signs this bill, the American people are not going to have to wait long to see benefits,’’ Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a conference call with reporters. “From the moment he puts down his pen,’’ groups such as senior citizens on prescription drugs and young adults without health insurance will begin to feel relief, she said.
As if he WAIVED a MAGIC WAND, huh -- even though many provisions are years away?
I don't feel any different, readers.
Obama plans to make periodic trips between now and November to tout the health care package, said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
So much for CLIMATE CHANGE when it comes to SELLING the AGENDA, 'eh, Americans!?
And why would he have to tout something that is so good for you?
Wouldn't it tout itself?
Some analysts said Obama’s health care victory will embolden him to revive a variety of campaign promises.
“The victory on health care without any Republican support should steel Obama for additional partisan wars ahead, especially on financial regulation,’’ said Thomas Mann, an expert on Congress at the Brookings Institution, the nonprofit Washington think tank.
Isn't it GREAT that an agenda-pushing "think tank" funded by the elites is TAX-EXEMPT?
“I think Democrats will be much tougher and dare the Republicans to filibuster. Immigration and climate change have their own politics but....’’
But YOU DON'T KNOW DemocraPs or Repuglicans!!
Repuglicans are saying BRING IT ON and DemmocraPs ALWAYS CAVE!!!
But....
Two buts in rapid succession!!
immigration reform will prove so divisive that, in pollster McInturff’s analysis, it has only a 1 percent chance of being approved before the midterm elections. Climate change, he said, won’t have a chance in the Senate unless it is substantially changed from the version the House passed last summer. He rated passage of stricter Wall Street regulations a “tossup.’’
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Financial regulation may provide Obama’s best chance for success, particularly if the president can galvanize voter anger against financial institutions that played a role in the economic meltdown.
How can he when we are FURIOUS with HIM?
But the details are complex and difficult for voters to understand, and Obama’s proposal for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency might have to be sacrificed in order to win enough bipartisan support.
Look at the ELITE NEWSPAPER TALK DOWN TO YOU, voters!
I think you UNDERSTAND LOOTING quite well after the hell you have been through the last few years.
Congress is discussing immigration legislation that would provide a pathway for citizenship for some of the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. While members of both parties want to win over the important Latino vote for the midterm elections and beyond, there are members in both parties opposed to the measure.
So this was all a load of diversionary, agenda-pushing dung, 'eh, BG?
If nothing else, the passage of the health care bill has the practical impact of freeing up the time of legislators to focus on other issues.
Yeah, I HOPE it was WORTH IT, American people, "if nothing else!"
Of course, NOTHING WAS STOPPING THEM from DOING THOSE THINGS and NOT THIS because THEY DECIDE what will be DEBATED!
The elite *ewspaper really tinks weez iz stoo-pidz, huh?
“It should make it easier because health care sucked up a lot of the oxygen in the political room as well as consumed a lot of time,’’ said Daniel Weiss, an expert on climate change at the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund. Weiss cited the example of a Democrat who was unable to attend a key meeting on global warming with Obama two weeks ago because he was meeting elsewhere about health care.
Liberals simply refuse to take their heads out of the s*** pile, don't they?
Weiss believes that health care passage will strengthen the president’s hand on climate change, particularly if his poll numbers go up in the coming days. “In politics, success breeds success. So instead of depleting political capital, it can replenish it.’’
Oh, I AM SURE the MSM will RIG the APPROPRIATE POLLS to PUSH the AGENDA -- or ignore them if they do not (like the polls on this health care bill and the wars we want ended).
That is what advocates of immigration reform are hoping. Yesterday, the Rev. Jim Wallis, an evangelical Christian who supports the reform effort, met with officials at the White House, urging them to take advantage of the momentum from health care passage.
Did you know that the controlled-opposition outfits from the left bother me because I feel such a sense of betrayal?
I always expected the "right" to be pricks; however, when the "left" betrayed me on 9/11 Truth and you begin to realize what sell-outs they are.
In the meantime, Wallis said, he wants to help Obama by forming prayer groups for immigration reform in the same way that tea party activists have led protests against various Democratic policies.
Related: Progressive Tea Party
I think the girl has the right idea.Here, let me pour you a cup, Rev.
“The country needs to know we are together,’’ Wallis said....
We are on some of the things I mentioned above, but somehow those items never seem to make the "debate."
Powerful interests are lined up on either side of all three of the major bills....
And whoever wins the tussle the American people lose.
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So what is the Globe pushing, dear readers?
"After landmark health vote, a thorny new phase of reform
PASSAGE OF health-insurance reform creates two new beginnings. The first is for the health-care debate, so long mired in how to provide coverage to the uninsured, that can now turn relentlessly to cost containment, the great challenge of the next few decades. The second is for Barack Obama, who dedicated his first year in office to letting Congress work its way through a single issue, albeit a complex one.
In the two months since Scott Brown’s surprise Senate victory seemed to portend political doom for Obama, the president has answered his critics....
Wait a minute!
WHO FRAMED IT THAT WAY before the DemocraPs found "reconciliation," MSM?
What a SET-UP to CONTINUE ADVANCING the AGENDA!
Next up, RISING POLL NUMBERS!!
Read it here first, readers!
Now Obama must decide where next to turn. Climate change legislation has been bubbling on the back burner while health care consumed most of the heat, and it’s almost as ideologically charged and subject to misrepresentation.
And WE KNOW BY WHOM, Glob!
All we need do is GO OUTSIDE!
Almost immediately, Obama will have to decide whether to push ahead on a modified “cap and trade’’ plan, creating incentives for power plants to reduce carbon emissions, before the mid-term elections.
Why?
The House has already passed a bill; the Senate, with its filibuster rule, presents an enormous obstacle. The administration must assess quickly whether it has enough Senate support to move quickly on climate change....
But no one should believe that health care reform is complete....
What? As the DemocraPs are proclaiming victory?
There are competing theories about the implications of Sunday’s health vote.
But not "conspiracy theories," right, MSM?
One group believes the reforms will become so popular they will buoy the Democratic Party for a generation, and another that they will be so unpopular that the Democrats will suffer grievous losses in November.
Those are the ones with their heads still stuck in s***, and it only adds to the ANTI-INCUMBENCY ATTITUDE we will be carrying to the POLLS. ALL INCUMBENTS OUT no matter which party and ALWAYS VOTE THIRD-PARTY FIRST (no matter which one it)!
Neither is likely to happen. Health care is now so deeply embedded in the economy, the government, and social issues that it will continue to consume an equivalent space on the political stage. Far from ending, the health care debate will go on and on.
I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
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I'm still be running, readers.
