Now that President Obama has likely lost the health-care battle, he’s decided to take desperate measures to unlock tied-down Washington.*
Fat chance. They’ve been giving lipservice to that for years. Blame just depends on who’s in power. Democrats most recently held the power, lost the immediate advantage, so now they want compromise.
But it’s like two countries negotiating the end to a war. The one with the seeming immediate advantage dictates certain unacceptable terms going in. It doesn’t work. With terms being dictated, the side disadvantaged still holds hope of a comeback, and attends just looking for a weak spot to regain an advantage.
Like Obama, still saying He’ll consider anything, but some things aren’t negotiable. Then bringing Republicans in for a high-profile meeting, where everybody is shamed into seeming conciliatory, but neither side goes in to give in.
Where were the high-profile, bi-partisan meetings when high-profile bills like health care were being put together to begin with? Are the American people believing that Washington is turning over a new leaf, just because of another meeting?
We knew the answer without a poll, but there is one: a new Washington Post- ABC News poll indicates that the deep divisions remain. Very deep.
Talk about old news! The poll could have been taken years ago.
*President Barack Obama at Press Conference Says He’ll Meet Republicans ‘Halfway’ – WSJ.com.
