Obama Is Begging For Votes Now; For Him It Is Personal
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I think Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has a balanced look at what the looming ObamaCare vote means for the Democrats.
“For what it’s worth, the Waterloo talk is overblown — by both sides. We don’t have a parliamentary system in the US; the executive does not face votes of no confidence by the legislature. The President is always relevant to political debate, thanks to the power of the veto, as Bill Clinton proved in the collapse of his own takeover of the health-care sector in 1994.
The burning of political capital in the cause is really more of an issue regardless of whether the bill passes or not. Obama will have a job after November; many of the people whose arms he’s twisting will not, thanks to this bill and the sleazy manner in which Democrats have pushed it. The question of a strong Presidency should really focus on whether Obama will have the votes in the next two years to get anything done in Congress, and whether House and Senate Democrats who are looking at electoral catastrophe in November will go along with anything else left this year on the presidential agenda. He’s used up all of his political chits on this initiative, no matter what its outcome.”
The analysis misses one critical thing, for President Obama I think passing ObamaCare is personal. The loss of his mother may be driving this insanity. For Obama, to oppose ObamaCare is to attack his dead mother.
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