Just in time for the President to fly off to Copenhagen to accomplish squat, “his” health care bill is dying in the Senate:
The bill’s supporters had said earlier that they thought they had secured Mr. Lieberman’s agreement to go along with a compromise they worked out to overcome an impasse within the party.
But on Sunday, Mr. Lieberman told the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to scrap the idea of expanding Medicare and to abandon the idea of any new government insurance plan, or lose his vote.
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Here’s where it gets really tricky. If Obama skips (or even cuts short) Copenhagen to rally support for the Senate bill, and it still dies, then he loses three ways. If Obama keeps his trip as scheduled, then maybe he’ll lose only two ways. It was, after all, Obama who decided to stake his (our) prestige on a big result in Copenhagen, and who made health reform his signature domestic agenda item.
This is what we call “hoisted by his own petard.”
It’s also what we call “amateur hour at the White House.” Or we would call it an hour, had it not been going on for 11 damn months already.
Well, he has awarded himself a solid B+ for his first year in office so, it can’t be all that bad.
Remember when McCain suspended his campaign to return to Washington to fix the banking problem?
I wonder if Obama was going to do that and McCain beat him to it. Looking at the above, it seems like Obama’s style.
I’ll settle for Dear Liar losing only two ways, but I hope for a three way losing.
It will be a win for the United States of America.
If this happens, I just may willingly listen to the whole of his first SOTU speech. It’d be sweet to contrast it with the speech he expected to make.
Looks like a loser. The developing countries just walked out of the talks. Popcorn for breakfast. Good thing I’m retired, popcorn in this amount needs Budweiser.
PS: Roll Tide
What? The developing countries walked out? They didn’t get a big enough slice of the promised graft?
It’s also what we call “amateur hour at the White House.”
Yup.
Generally speaking, Presidents only show up at these things after they’ve gotten private commitments that they’ll have something to show for it- they don’t go if the outcome is in doubt.
Obama is greatly overestimating his powers of persuasion, and seems to think that the Presidents showing up is what made the event succeed. He’s got it backwards.
Three more years…
Steve called it. The loser got his ass handed to him again. I wonder if he’ll learn to stay away from Copenhagen in the future. That’s two embarassments in that fair city.