re: #348 Pianobuff

Ice - Glad you’re hear. You’re Obama’s advisor again… (remember one of our last discussions?).

Can you rank order these strategies from best to worst if these were the only choices and comment as you see fit?

1 - Send clear signals soon (by end of August) to Congress that you will define what is “acceptable victory” for those writing the legislation.

2 - No changes to plan. Let the legislators write. Obama continues to sell and sooner or later the two roads will meet.

3 - Call a timeout. Re-group and come up with a new approach that gives Obama plausible room to say “We heard you and we are adapting”.

4 - Do an LBJ and lean as hard as you possibly can on the Blue Dogs to submit and vote for the bill with a public option.

5 - Do an LBJ and lean as hard as you possibly can on the progs to submit and vote for the bill w/o a public option.

Hey pianobuff!
I remember that convo…but it’s a weekend and I’m a bit, uh, not myself.

Is the question what should Obama do, or what will Obama do?