re: #128 iossarian

I agree with all of this, except that I don’t think Obama was particularly clumsy, he was just facing 100% opposition from a very rich industry (and, by implication, the Republican party and quite a few “centrist” Democrats).

Tactically, I think he was fighting the last war, in that he was determined not to relive the Hillarycare episode by presenting Congress with a highly detailed plan. Instead, he went all the way to the other extreme and said “I don’t care how you do it, just do it”, which is (and was) an invitation to chaos.

He learned the Hillarycare lesson too well.