Here's some hope and change for ya...

It seems the American people are just not buying the socialized healthcare routine.  Finally, people are starting to wake up and are not afraid anymore to tell pollsters they disagree with the One.  And this is having some frustrating results for the President.

 

First, though, I would like to give some shout outs to some republicans that have finally grown some hair on their chest and are willing to fight back-

Jim Demint- Matt Lauer interviewed him the other day, and said "People are saying that you are playing pure politics with this issue," and pressed "Are you rallying conservatives to the cause of health care reform? Or are you rallying conservatives to the cause of breaking a President?" obviously trying to paint this fight as some sort of personal vendetta against Obama. 

Kudos to Demint for responding- “we need to put the brakes on this President. He's been on a spending spree since he took office. And we need health care reform. Unfortunately, when the President was in the Senate, I've probably offered more health care reform proposals than anyone in the Senate. And the President voted against every proposal that would have made health insurance more available and more affordable to people. His goal seems to be a government takeover, not making insurance more available. So I do think we need to stop the President on this. We need to stop his policy, because if we allow him to continue to ram things through Congress before we even get a chance to read them.”   Can you imagine two months ago if this had been asked to a normal republican- his response would have been conilliatory and apologetic to the president, followed with a vow to stand with the president no matter what.

Second shout out goes to Michael Steele, who came out and called the plan “socialist”.  Finally calling a rose a rose and a turd a turd.

 

Now, politicians have an incredible sense of self preservation, to the point of pushing women and children out of the way to get to the life boat.  The Democrats are starting to feel this, and it is evident in their reactions.  Charlie Rangel was overheard to say that no one has the guts to tell Pelosi to slow down, and certainly no one will tell the president that.  Seems to me that some democrats are not too happy with the way Pelosi and Obama are playing with their political futures.  Obama had a private meeting (so much for transparency in govt.) with the Democrats that are pushing back against him, and one congressman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa says he heard that Obama told these democrats they were going to “destroy” his presidency.

 

Finally, as communist as we think the Networks are, money still speaks- Obama wanted to have a press conference (and I use the term press conference very loosely) on Tuesday.  But, NBC said no, because they were going to air a Susan Boyle interview that night and are expecting massive ratings.  Obama is probably crying in his cheerios, or should I say Obamaeeos (after all, they are little letter O’s, so Rahm Emanual told Obama they were named after him.)

 

Peace- I’m out