It's a no brainer, a golden opportunity and nobody is taking advantage of it.
Obama needs to start putting the Republican leadership (not the talking heads) on the spot and exposing their stripes.
Now that the spotlight is on healthcare Obama needs to challenge any of the dolts on the right to an unscripted and unedited public debate on the subject of healthcare thus confronting the GOP on the facts.
With the right wing noise machine and the corporate media reverberating every right wing talking point instead of showing people losing their life savings, getting turned down for healthcare and DYING, Obama needs to have an open debate with any of the GOP leadership in the house or Senate on the issue.
It would be a nationalized stage covered by all the networks and cable news.
Everyone including the whackos on the right want healthcare reform. Listening to them scream on right wing radio also exposes what they want. They don't want the health care industry gouging them. They don't want to see people dying, but they are so entrenched into the distortion of the right wing noise machine and corporate media, they are scared of change.
If Obama were to offer a debate on healthcare and point for point force his opponent to agree with him, he could make the GOP look like the bunch of corporate monkeys that they are.
Call them out and force them to start reforming the legislation. The great majority of American want this kind of change. Not the same old good ole boy policy writing we are seeing with this legislation presented to the public and written by the insurance companies.
Furthermore, despite Obama's approval ratings going down, why don't we hear how the GOP approval rating haven't capitalized on Obama's falling numbers? The reason, the GOPs numbers are stagnant and they don't know how the hell to make their tent bigger with the racists and idiots we see at these town hall meetings. The GOP continues to form a circular firing squad...
I think that this small battle will cost their image come 2010 if the Democrats take the high road and let the far right flounder and show the country what has lead us to the state of deterioration we are in today. I don't know too many people who adcocate for the antics they are using. They look crazy...