Reply #23: You know why I think that's bullshit? Healthcare reform [View All]

Before the healthcare debate up to 80% of Americans wanted to see reform. 70% during the debate wanted a public option. So tell me this, why couldn't Obama back the Republicans in to the same corner Bush did when it came to things like the Iraq war? By the time the debate was done support for healthcare reform was down in the 40s. You can look at any other major policy inititive of this administration and the exact same thing happened, wether it was tax cuts for the rich, wall street reform, or even the stimulus. Now we are actually talking about cuts to social security and medicare that Obama himself seems to be pushing.

This means the Democrats are either complicit or incompetent. And I think they are complicit, but even if it was incompetence I don't think incompetence is that much better.