re: #52 WindUpBird

you don’t think what was done by lobbying groups and GOP luminaries to try and defeat HCR was a hostile political climate?

What? Even his friends must have had misgivings about this particular legislation. That bill is a mess, and it’s a mess whether you want green energy, higher taxes, or even health care reform, or not.

What sort of a reform is it that doesn’t touch tort reform? What sort of a bill is it that includes provisions that everyone knows will be rescinded before they go into effect, just so that the bill, as written, will clear some budgetary hurdle?

The overall political climate when Obama came into office was a mix of exultation [the winners] and guarded willingness to wait and see and hope for the best [the losers].

Or, in some cases, guarded willingness etc. on the part of the winners, the ones who had wanted Hillary. And yes, from an originally small corner, bitter and determined opposition to everything he proposed.

We’ve waited and we’ve seen and the optimism is faded. Screw ups on health care, continued economic weakness, and a sense of nobody at the tiller when it came to the BP spill have had consequences.