If Obama is staking his Presidency on passing Health Care Reform

[Sub Atomic]

don't you think that's just going to make the Wrongnuts fight even harder?

[tridim]

1. The corporations are going to fight Obama and the Democrats on everything..

and with 100% commitment. That's just the way it is.

Did you really expect anything less?

[timeforpeace]

2. of course. You know what they say about all your eggs in one basket.

[Laelth]

3. I respectfully disagree. His presidency is safe UNLESS ...

... UNLESS he passes a very bad "health insurance reform" bill that acts, principally, as a major gift to the insurance industry.

This is not 1994. The Republican Party's popularity is in the toilet. Their leaders are insane (reflecting their rabid base). So long as Obama does not piss off 50 million Americans by forcing them to buy worthless insurance that they can not afford, he is safe.

I reject your premise. Obama is risking nothing here. His only risk is that he will be rightly punished if he signs a bill that is very bad for the American people.

:dem:

-Laelth

[hedgehog]

4. I think it's going to be an entire term of one death match after another.

He is upending our entire economic system to restore the middle class. That's why I voted for him, but a lot of people out there don't understand his proposals or have a vested interest in the status quo.