Following are genuine, non-rhetorical questions that have me thinking...
- Why is the emerging conventional wisdom on 'where to go from here' on HCR pushing just what the medical-industrial complex wants -- 'just pass the Senate bill in the House and fix it later?'
- Why do liberals again need to fold so there can be progress?
- Why can't the ObamaDems get it through their heads that the light of public scrutiny plays well for their side by exposing the cynical obstructionism of the wingnut faction?
- Why can't Reid-Pelosi-Obama find the heart and the spine to reclaim the populist advantage and fight this thing out in public instead of in the no-longer smokey back rooms?
- Why won't President Nice Guy use the bully pulpit to define 'us' and 'them' (with 'them' being the obstructionist GOP-industry axis)?
- How is it that President Nice Guy is as-yet unconvinced that 'bipartisanship' is shorthand for 'capitulation'?
- Wouldn't it be great politics to break down the omnibus HCR bill into popular parts and hash it out on C-Span in both the Senate and House? (This is not an original thought, I know).
- Wouldn't it expose the wingnut-industry axis if the Dems used their power to frame the debate, one idea at a time (no recision; no pre-existing condition exclusion; Medicare for 50+ etc) and then schedule the debate over each in prime-time?
- Do the Dems KNOW they have power?
- Should I move to Canada?
(As you might guess, I am not a partisan Dem. I am registered as an independent.)
(I'm going to post this and go hike on the sunny snowy mountainside to see if answers present themselves, then check back in when I return.)
(Forgive me for re-posting what seemed to me to be one of the best observations made yesterday on why Obama has failed to get the ju-ju he needs to push back against the GOP-corporate axis. In short: no one likes to play the blame game, but sometimes it's justified AND good politics.)