There’s an interesting report by The Washington Post. It’s called, “Debate’s Path Caught Obama By Surprise”. I’d link it, but moderation would block me if I did.

The thing about that article is that the administration here is trying to express surprise and consternation at why the Left is so determined to have a “public option.” If there isn’t one, the Left is not interested in the deal. Now that the White House has floated a strategy that does not include that “public option”, it finds itself presiding over a revolt.

Key sentiment here from a White House official (unamed, of course): “It’s a mystifying thing. We’re forgetting why we are in this.”

This is unsettling. The White House is in this because extending governmental control over Americans’ health care is a priority of the Democratic left ever since the 1970′s (remember Teddy Kennedy’s campaign vs. Carter?). If there isn’t a “public option” in the health care plan then there isn’t a reason to have a health care plan at all from the Democratic party’s point of view. Obama is waffling hugely on this basic point.

Obama’s floating trial balloons to see if an incremental approach involving “competitive co-operatives”, an oxymoron if there ever was one, will float. He’s doing this because the White House sees that the big grab is cooked. Ain’t happening this year. Nightmare populist uprising they couldn’t slander away. So they’re on Plan B.

Idiotarians pandemic on the Democratic Left are ready for bear, tho. The One is in a pinch.

That’s our sorry scenario. For the LOVE OF GOD, WHY??

Our country is in the throes of an economic meltdown due a lot of factors. None of those factors include health care. Our health care system may be messed up and fraught with perils, but it is not why we are in the situation we are in economically.

This is an absurd side-show, and a very, very perilous one.

The Obama administration has really played its hand badly. So much for the “reality based community”, given cap ‘n trade and Obamacare.

This is shaping up as one of the biggest political meltdowns in US history. He’s waffling around, shooting his own troops from the back of the head, shooting at his opponents wildly.

This man does not have the skills of a statesman or of an experienced domestic deal maker.

He’s a kiss-up to foreigners and a thug on his home scene.

Disaster.

Short him.