OK, can some of you Obama supporters explain this to me:

Both the US citizenry and its elected reps are pretty evenly divided on the
health care bill as it presently is before the Congress (in this case, I don't
see what a percentage point either way truly means insofar as this not being a
well-supported measure). Therefore, for Obama to attempt to "ram" this (or
anything else with similar numbers) through seems to fly directly into the face
of his campaign promises. Moreover, when something requires THIS much "wheeling
and dealing" with things in no way related to health care, it would seem to be
all the more iffy. Anyway, here's the thing, at least to me - if Obama truly
wants to be a healing, non-partisan influence, he'd be more worried about
getting necessary reform that is widely supported legislated and less worried
about his own political future. And he might wish to be the spearhead of
cleaning up the existing healthcare mess before he is the spearhead of piling
more **** on top of the existing pile. OTOH, maybe not...

Sheesh,
R