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What does it say about THE GREAT ONE, Barack Hussein Obama, when even the MSM is making fun of HIM?

Mm, mmm, mm!?
Holy S**t?
or
Someting inside is now verking?

Capital Crunch: Obama Confronts Waning Political Capital

October 05, 2009 8:15 AM

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:

Think the White House may want to work on its vote-counting operation before the health care bill makes it to the Senate floor?

Think the CBO might be just as brutal as the IOC — with scoring that counts just as much?

Think the public debate over Afghanistan strategy gets any easier as events shape perceptions?

Nobody will much remember a 24-hour trip to Denmark in early fall if, by the start of winter, there’s a health care bill in place and a Afghanistan policy everyone in the administration can agree to.

But whether President Obama’s focus turns abroad again or stays at home for a stretch, the president is confronting the limits of his political capital — from an Olympic loss, to the near-certain loss of a public option in a health care bill, and the end of streamlined decision-making on Afghanistan.

This is a time where the president needs to be spending his capital — in the halls of Congress, and on the world stage. But when he talks, who is listening? (And does the president lose options himself the longer he chooses to keep listening?)

Testing time: “A number of factors have combined to strip him of the camouflage that he once enjoyed when it comes to health-care policy,”David Broder writes in his Sunday Washington Post column. “His main leverage point is the realization among nearly all Democrats that nothing would be as costly to them, in their individual 2010 races, as the failure of this Congress, with its heavy Democratic majorities, to pass a substantive health-reform bill. That may be enough in the end for Obama to succeed. But the task of getting there will really test him — and expose his core values.”

Thirteen months before the mid-term elections: “Obama is trying to prod Congress into passing legislation on health care overhaul, climate change, and financial services regulation by early next year, before election-year political pressures make it harder to persuade wary lawmakers to vote for the dramatic change Obama promised in his campaign,” Susan Milligan reports in The Boston Globe. “He must also make difficult decisions on whether to increase troop strength and commit America to a larger, longer mission in Afghanistan. And the economy, while apparently on the road to recovery, is still not producing new jobs and continues to generate anxiety around the country.”

Rep. Chris Van Hollen: “I do believe that if we are not successful in passing health care reform, it will make it much more difficult to enact other major initiatives,” said Van Hollen, D-Md., the DCCC chairman.

(Ya think?)

The White House is using its Monday to re-set the focus of the debate on health care — again.

At 11:10 am ET in the Rose Garden, “the President will welcome doctors from across the country to an event in the Rose Garden, where he will deliver remarks on the need for health insurance reform this year.” (They’re coming from every state, which means plenty of local-media pick-up.)

(And Organizing for America wants letters from doctors — and others — to make the case: “You don’t have to be a doctor or an expert to write an effective letter — you just have to have an opinion or a personal story to share. And these letters are short, usually just a paragraph or two, but they can have a huge impact because it shows your representatives and the media what local folks are thinking in the most public way possible.”)

Yet even inside the Finance Committee — a still-uncertain fate? Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., remain on the fence — along with Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.

“At least two Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have refused to pledge support for the health-care reform bill scheduled for a vote this week, underscoring the hard work ahead for President Obama as he tries to enact the most ambitious domestic policy legislation in more than a generation,” Ceci Connolly reports in The Washington Post.”Committee defeat of the bill is an unlikely scenario, but one that highlights the power every Senate Democrat — and perhaps a few Republicans — holds going forward in a process that could stretch beyond Thanksgiving.”

Might the public option live? “Senior administration officials have been holding private meetings almost daily at the Capitol with senior Democratic staff to discuss ways to include a version of the public plan in the healthcare bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to bring to the Senate floor this month, according to senior Democratic congressional aides,” the Los Angeles Times’ Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook report.

“It … marks a crucial test of Obama’s command of the inside game in Washington in which deals are struck behind closed doors and wavering lawmakers are cajoled a

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Should Pres Obama and the Rest of Congress consider getting there Own private health insurance?

As reported by the Washington Post and others including Fox News, the Obama administration met with several veterans groups on March 16 and floated the idea of saving taxpayers $540 million by billing veterans’ private insurance companies for treatment of conditions connected to their military service, including war injuries. The Department of Veterans Affairs currently bills these insurance companies for treatment of non-service-related conditions.

But as administration officials made clear at the time, there was no proposal to force veterans to pay for treatment for their own injuries, or to make them buy private insurance if they did not already have it. In fact, administration officials told FactCheck.org at the time that their proposal would have no financial impact on veterans at all.

“The idea … would result in no additional out-of-pocket costs to veterans even when their private insurance plans require deductibles before benefits are paid,” one official told us in an exchange of e-mails.

Nevertheless, veterans organizations protested. An American Legion news release carried the headline: “The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President’s Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment.” It complained that the idea could under some circumstances result in added costs to veterans despite administration officials’ assurances. For example, the Legion said, a veteran’s treatment might cost enough to reach maximum insurance coverage limits, leaving the rest of the veteran’s family without health care benefits.
After all if we could consider this for the Vets than we should really consider it for a bunch of pencil pushers….

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As a person who has seen first hand how family members are suffering because of a lack of health care because they can’t afford it, I fully support Obama’s health care plot. Why are people so against this much needed reform?

The Washington Post – ”…The cost of the incomplete plot drafted by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was pegged at about trillion over 10 years, but the CBO said that would still leave 30 million (rather than the current 46 million) people without coverage.”
So the proposed plot would cost [...]