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Two Out of Four Liberals Agree that Health Care Reform Was Obama’s Biggest Mistake [Video]
On his show Sunday Chris Matthews turned the tables on his guests a bit by asking them to name Obama’s biggest mistake during his first two-and-a-half years in office.
A couple of the answers echoed the lament of some liberals and were not all that surprising. Jamie Tarabay, the managing editor of the National Journal, cited the war in Afghanistan and Kimberly Dozier, an intelligence and counterterrorism reporter for the AP, mentioned Obama’s promise to close the prison in Guantanamo without having a plan on how to do it.
But it was the answers from both Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post and David Ignatius of The Washington Post that seemed to have caught Matthews by surprise.
Fineman: His decision to spend all of his political capital and a year-and-a-half of his time on the health care reform law, I think, was his biggest political mistake.
Ignatius: The idea of watching a major change in social legislation without having a consensus in the country and in Congress about what that should look like was a mistake. That’s just not how the president makes good policy.
Matthews: Wow!
Fineman and Ignatius aren’t saying they thought Obamacare was a mistake, but that the time and methods employed by Obama to get the law passed cost his party and his presidency dearly.
Even though the health care law passed, it has been roundly vilified by a significant majority and helped lead to the heavy losses the Democrats suffered in last years election. And it continues to be a campaign issue for 2012 with the leading GOP presidential hopefuls all saying that they would work to repeal Obamacare if elected president.
That two of the panelists actually agreed that Obamacare was the President’s biggest mistake thus far is rather remarkable considering they had so many to choose from.
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The ONLY mistakes Obama made with his healthcare plan was (1.) failing to force the three or four recalcitrant Democrats in the Senate into line BEFORE the congressional festivities began on the issue; and, (2.) spending a year forcing through a GOP-bastardized version that’s NOT what most rank-and-file Democrats wanted.
The GOP has behaved as a guttertripe bully since the DEMs took over Congress in ’06 and have continued that classless and disrespectful behavior throughout Obama’s presidency. And … the ONLY effective way to be rid of a bully is to take him/her on immediately and beat the living crap out of him/her … but Obama’s inner-circle of strategizers has been far TOO POLITICALLY-CORRECT to actually beat-u[p on the bum bullies day-in and day-out as necessary … and Obama is paying the price for constantly playing “Mr. Nice Guy”!