Obama Doubles Down

Democrats have wanted President Obama to drop some of his cool and fight for their health-care agenda, and last night they weren’t disappointed. The President gave away very little on the substance of what Congressional leaders are proposing, even as he offered a rhetorical bow or two to the idea of compromise. The main message of his speech to Congress is that he is doubling down on his health-care bets and counting on the sheer inertia of Democratic ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Sep 9, 2009 - 10:15 PM PDT
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Sep 9, 2009 - 11:13 PM PDT
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by Derek Hawkins - Sep. 10, 2009

"The only way to stop it now is with a giant wave of popular opposition" -- this is little different than any other WSJ editorial I've read on health care over the past couple months, just more paranoid. Same generic talking points, coupled with an underlying tone of defeat. As a conservative response, this is pretty canned.

Thus he endorsed the public’s concern about the competence of government to manage one-sixth of the economy, only to finish with a soaring oration about the moral ... More »

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Sep. 10, 2009

Interesting conservative perspective on Obama's health care speech to Congress from the WSJ editors. This editorial takes the cynical view that Obama is only pretending to reach out to the right, but in fact intends to ram through his plan with the help of his left-wing peers. This article offers little evidence to back up this speculation, which appears designed to appeal the Wall Street Journal's more conservative readers. However, the article makes some helpful points about the differences between plans proposed by the left and the right, which I found informative.

After watching Obama's speech last night, I came to very different conclusions than this WSJ editorial. I found the President's speech to be thoughtful and his efforts to include Republican ideas seemed genuine and effective to me. This difference in views illustrates the wide gap between liberal and conservative attitudes to health care reform. I hope we can bridge this gap in coming months, requiring all parties to make reasonable concessions towards that goal. My fingers are ... More »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Sep. 10, 2009

a completely negative perspective on many aspects of pres. obama's speech on a health care bill., turning what was actually said upside down. also, its' interesting to read that "the"doctors' lobby, the hospitals, big pharma, even the largest insurers have all invested enormously in government health care"., but he doesn't explain why republicans apparently do not support any of them in this, as, according to the writer, the president does.

the last sentence sums up the writer's apparent goal here: "the only way to stop it now is with a giant wave of popular opposition."

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