Obama's Strategic Mistake

He deferred to Congress and his special interest union allies, putting them ahead of the best interests of the American people. That's why we don't have jobs now. The stimulus was not timely, nor targeted at those who needed it most. Job losses may be a lagging indicator, but they inflict real pain on real people. But we couldn't have a real debate, no, no, no! Jay Cost, RCP:

What's odd is that when the stimulus bill was under consideration, the President said there was no time for a real debate. Why the need for speed if the bill wouldn't begin to take effect for months? This seemed like a rhetorical trick designed to deflect criticism from what was a questionable bill.

No kidding. The other foot on the throat of the American people is the enormous tax and debt burden this Democrat administration and Congress has run up in just a few months-- and they continue to spend like there's no tomorrow. At this rate there won't be--our kids and grandkids will be wage slaves their entire lives. The cap and tax bill--the largest tax increase in American history--was rushed through the same way. At least the Senate has yet to vote on it, hopefully it will die there.

All this haste and waste does not inspire confidence in Congress and the administration's actually tackling healthcare reform in a cost-effective and workable way. Obama's strategy, or lack of one, has come back to haunt him. He squandered our money and our goodwill:

Without their lower administrative cost talking point, the left knows their justification for government run health care in a time of dangerously high deficits evaporates.

Dangerously high deficits they created. Man does not live by bread alone, but earning and eating our daily bread is pretty damn important. We can't afford to go into huge debt without dealing with what's already on our plate. It's the economy, stupid.

P.S. Newsbusters with the background on ObamaRahmbo and the left's game on healthcare.

More, on the supposed third way healthcare option:

If health care were expensive because much of it is provided by for-profit entities, then why haven't not-for-profit entities already solved the problem? "Non-profit organizations could go in and undercut the people who are making these supposedly unwarranted profits, lowering the cost of health care for all of us," Sowell said. "Why don't they do it?" Because, of course, they cannot.

"All the examples I have been able to find," Sowell continued, "show that profit-making organizations operate so efficiently that they are encroaching on the non-profits." Consider, to name just one instance, colleges and universities. One institution of higher learning after another has hired private, for-profit enterprises to run its student bookstores. Has any college or university ever asked the government to do so? Sowell thought not.

Most people know this, it's common sense. But it's in short supply in Washington. And this on the Obameconomy, from Politico:

"Right now, every headline across the board is the stimulus isn’t enough, states are in bankruptcy, states aren’t paying their bills,” says Wendy Schiller, a Brown University political scientist. “This is really deadly for the Democratic Party, because what it suggests is the Democratic Party cannot run the country.”