Listening to blowhard Joe Lieberman (I-only care about myself), as well as Max Baucus, Blanche Lincoln, Kent Conrad, et al., I keep wishing we had Fake Rahm Emanuel taking care of business in the White House. Replace "gun control" with "health care reform" in the clip below the fold and you'll know what I mean:
Time to go Gazeebo on their asses!
Key part starts at :40:
Josh Lyman: Forgive my bluntness, and I say this will all due respect, Congressman, but vote yes or you're not even going to be on the ballot two years from now.
Wimpy Congressman: How do you figure?
JL: You're going to lose in the primary.
WC: There's no Democrat running against me.
JL: Sure there is.
WC: Who?
JL: Whomever we pick.
WC: You're bluffing.
JL: Ok.
WC: I'm in your own party!
JL: Doesn't seem to be doing us much good now does it?
WC: Against an incumbant Democrat? You go to the press and endorse a challenger?...
JL: No Sir, we're going to do it in person. See, you won with 52 percent but the President took your district with 59, and I think it's high time we come back and say "Thanks." Do you have any idea how much noise Air Force One makes when it lands in Eau Claire, Wisconsin? We're going to have a party, Congressman, you should come, it's going to be great. And when the watermelon's done, right in town squre, right there in the band gazeebo... you guys got a band gazeebo?
WC: Josh...
JL: Doesn't matter... we'll build one. Right in the band gazeebo, that's where the President is going to drape his arm around the shoulder of some Assistant DA we like. And you should have your camera with you, you should get a picture of that, because that's going to be the moment you're finished in Democratic politics.
President Bartlett's a good man, he's got a good heart. He doesn't hold a grudge. That's what he pays me for.