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What if Barry held a healthcare summit and nobody showed up?

Barry is desperate to rescue his healthcare reform plan. Actually, he's desperate to rescue almost any healthcare reform plan, except one which includes actual free-market reforms.

So he has finally invited the Republicans to the table. Whoop dee doo. His newfound embrace of "bipartisanship" rings hollow. He's on the prowl for a scapegoat, and who better than Congressional Republicans?

If no plan emerges Barry can point to GOP obstructionism.

If the plan which does emerge turns out to be a steaming pile of excrement (as in something even worse than the shit sandwich he's pimping now) he can blame modifications the Republicans made him include.

I say, "don't play". John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, et al should find a compelling reason to be out of town on Feb 25^th. Let Barry twist in the wind.

If, and this is a big if, Barry was conducive to scrapping ObamaCare in its current form (no more Louisana Purchase, no Cornhusker Kickbacks, and no backroom deals with PhRMA) and if he got behind tort reform and true market-based solutions, then maybe it would be worthwhile for Republicans to sit down with him.

But as it stands now he's imposing too many pre-conditions on the negotiations. It's likely to be a repeat of his appearance at the GOP meeting in Baltimore. Barry up front, TelePrompTer cued up, looking down his nose at the plebes as he drones on and on about his vision for Caracas on the Potomac.

The problem with Barry is he's still living in his "I won" bubble. The voters in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts have scoffed in his face, but he refuses to change his tune. Behind the sophomoric rhetoric, away from his trusty TelePrompTer, without his new age logos and legions of swooning hopey-changey sycophants, he's got nothing.

There's no leadership. When Al Franken calls you a putz, you really are a putz. The Obama White House is in its own Private Idaho, disconnected from reality and unable to engage in substantive policy negotiations. Barry expects the force of his personality to sway seasoned politicians in the same way it won over a generation of vacuous coeds. He's still trying to tell us what he's gonna do and then sits back and expects the accolades to roll in before anything actually gets done. (See what happens when every kid gets a trophy? The kid grows up to be President and he expects a trophy.)

There's no upside for the GOP to march to Barry's drummer. The voters have seen what he wants to do to America and they're scared. It's good to be "the party of no" when the voters are the ones saying "hell no". The country is concerned about jobs and the economy. If ObamaCare flounders most people won't notice (or care). And with the way the Tea Party message has resonated nationwide I'm thinking that after November Barry will be rendered inert.

Then come January 2013 President Palin (or if you prefer, President Thune) can implement healthcare reform the right way.

Posted at 23:00 by Chris Wysocki   [/obamacare]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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