re: #565 PT Barnum

The interesting thing is that most liberals can’t understand why Obama bothered to try to work with the GOP at all, since it appeared that the GOP was more interested in preventing any kind of success rather than trying to actually get anything done.

Yes, and they have had enough with the dishonest framing of ‘Republicans are the party of NO’ and forget about the liberals anyway, they understand little in the best of time. The ones turning on Obama are the Independents and the conservative Democrats. They got tricked and are now on to it.

I think part of the problem is that the whole thing was framed incorrectly. The whole thing should have been sold as health insurance reform instead of health care reform. We all like our health care, but I don’t know anybody who really likes dealing with their insurance company or that thinks that insurance companies are really on the side of the consumer.

The propaganda message and anti corporate rabble-rousing of the Obama administration has already contributed to alienating enough of the population, more twist and spin was not needed, rather, honesty.

He took perfectly good populist rage and squandered it on trying to get Congress to act like adults instead of a bunch of squabbling school children.

Agreed, Obama is a busted flush. Watch him fade into lame duck status.