Here is another opinion that Obama has failed to explain the "Why" for all of his programs... "Trust me" only goes so far, especial if one has a weak mandate of only 53%...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26341.html >>> By doing so much, so fast, Obama gave Republicans the chance to define >>> large swaths of the debate. Conservatives successfully portrayed the >>> stimulus bill as being full of pork for Democrats. Then Obama lost control >>> of the health care debate by letting Republicans get away with their bogus >>> claims about “death panels.” The GOP also has successfully raised concerns >>> that the Obama plan is a big-government takeover of health care — and much >>> of Middle America bought the idea, according to polls. By doing so much, so fast, Obama never sufficiently educated the public on the logic behind his policies. He spent little time explaining the biggest bailouts in U.S. history, which he inherited but supported and expanded. And then he lost crucial support on the left by not following up quickly with new and stricter rules for Wall Street. On Friday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman echoed a concern widely shared among leading liberals. “I don’t know if administration officials realize just how much damage they’ve done themselves with their kid-gloves treatment of the financial industry, just how badly the spectacle of government supported institutions paying giant bonuses is playing.” By doing so much so fast, Obama jammed the circuits on Capitol Hill. Congress has a hard time doing even one big thing well at a time. Congress is good at passing giveaways and tax cuts, but has not enacted a transformative piece of social legislation since President Bill Clinton’s welfare reform of 1996. “There’s a reason things up here were built to go slowly,” said another Democratic aide. By doing so doing so much, so fast, he has left voters — especially independents — worried that he got an overblown sense of his mandates and is doing, well, too much too fast. A Washington Post-ABC News poll published Friday found that independents’ confidence in Obama’s ability to make the right decisions had dropped 20 points since the Inauguration, from 61 percent to 41 percent. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26341.html#ixzz0OvBRg4MW On Aug 22, 9:59 am, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > His main points are > > 1) insure all > 2) save money through rationalization despite insuring all > 3) it is broken and needs to be fixed now (while now trying to fix > Medicare first)... > 4) Tort reform is a deal breaker and not really a driver of increasing > Health costs > > Problem is how can you save money while covering more people without > some rationing??? And in fact, Obama has discussed this... So > Obama's pitch is unconvincing... And the NYT is just noticing after > trashing opposition to Obama's plan... > > I remember clearly how Democrats demanded that the reason for removing > Saddam only be limited to WMD and being an immediate threat BECAUSE > that was how it was "sold" (really as presented by the MSM).... Is > it not right then to judge Health Care reform by how it is being > sold??? If so, it is clear to me Obama is lying because the basic > points contradict each other... > > In fact, gleaning savings through "The zeal for cutting health costs, > combined with proposals to compare the effectiveness of various > treatments and to counsel seniors on end-of-life care" are a > reasonable concern concerning rationing... All Palin did was to label > this concern in a unflattering light -"death panels"... If Obama can > spin the facts one way, why is not legitimate for Palin to spin the > same facts the other... > > And that leads to my last point here, Obama is complaining that folks > are not buying his spin without question... And that suggests to some > he is just another used car salesman selling a clunker... > > http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/08/new-fromthe-times-when-... > > {quoting from the NYT} > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/health/policy/21seniors.html?_r=1&p... > > >>> Bills now in Congress would squeeze savings out of Medicare, a lifeline > >>> for the elderly, on the assumption that doctors and hospitals can be more > >>> efficient. > > President Obama has sold health care legislation to Congress and the > country as a way to slow the growth of federal health spending, no > less than as a way to regulate the insurance market and cover the > uninsured. > > Mr. Obama has also said Medicare and private insurers could improve > care and save money by following advice from a new federal panel of > medical experts on “what treatments work best.” > > The zeal for cutting health costs, combined with proposals to compare > the effectiveness of various treatments and to counsel seniors on end- > of-life care, may explain why some people think the legislation is > about rationing, which could affect access to the most expensive > services in the final months of life. > > “I don’t think we will get the quality of health care with this plan > that we get now,” said James T. 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