Then & Now

Three years ago "transformative" healthcare change needed a "sizeable majority":

Unless the "sizeable majority" he subsequently garnered proves to be not quite "sizeable" enough - do in no small part to his "transformativeness":

Oh, he doesn't SAY the word "reconciliation," but by citing half a dozen bills previously passed under reconciliation, he doesn't have to.  The difference being, of course, that welfare reform, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, COBRA health coverage for the unemployed, and both Bush tax cuts (1) all were budget-related and (2) all enjoyed broad bipartisan support.  In not a single one of those instances was the bill in question bitterly opposed by a "sizeable majority" of the American people yet rammed through Congress on a party-line vote anyway.

It actually makes one wonder why he's bothering with the umpteenth round of public speeches, rallies, and campaigning, aside from his love affair with the sound of his own voice.  It's not like he has anything new to say, or that the "sizeable majority" who hate both his guts and that of his misbegotten legislative gargantua are remotely persuadable.  "I urge every American who wants this reform to make their voice heard" is a plea for hard-left astroturfing, of course, but most of those animals are still pissed at the absence of a public option.  And his true target audience - emperiled House Dems - were marched behind closed White House doors at (figurative?) gunpoint and ordered to commit political hari-kari, which must have gone fabulously since he ended up begging them to "save his presidency" by the end of it.

The Weekly Standard puts B.O. and Granny fourteen votes short.  If you're one of those fourteen, how impressed are you going to be with a so-called "leader" whose own ass isn't on the line in November to hang yours out to wind for the sake of his bleeping vanity?