This is about as condescending and smirky as anyone has seen him to date. Obama, obviously unnerved by the cool reception of his O-care boondoggle has embarked on a campaign of selling a bill already signed into law. None other than Bill Clinton, politically savvy mastermind, predicted Obama's numbers would jump a full 10 points after the bill the signed into law. The reality? The Democrats' favorable rating dropped to an all time low, Gallop's lowest reading in the history of polling such things. Now at 41 percent, the Dems are a point off the Republicans'
approval ratings, whose party has been in the toilet for quite some time. It's not surprising you aren't hearing much from Democrat leaders about healthcare during the recess.
But here's the beauty of it. You have the Big Zero mocking people for worrying about the popularity of him and his O-care...at a rally held to sell O-care to the public!! And as usual, he is preaching only to the choir.
Not just one rally either, but a lot of them. If he is so sure about the glories of the Health Care Bill, would he have to constantly spin it off as the greatest thing since pet rocks? It seems as though he is taking the recent polls more seriously than he lets on.
Here's another gem. Mere sentences before he mocks media pundits and their concerns over poll numbers that didn't instantly sky-rocket, he mocks the Health Care Bill opponents and the GOP over the fact that O-care didn't instantly wreck the economy!!
A bill that doesn't kick in until 2014 could not be considered an instant economy killer, and to suggest that is what his were expecting is misleading and pure showmanship. The basic conservative argument, after all, is that the new bill puts us on the path to bigger and bigger government, welfare state dependency, and will most likely end up as a single payer system. Not to mention the fact that insurance costs are likely to go up, not down, under these new laws.
But that's typical of Obama. Why address your opponents' actual concerns, when you can build a blatant example of a straw man, and set it ablaze in front of a crowd of your doting admirers?
I hear the same thing from liberal die-hards, the "progressive and proud of it" crowd. They say things like "Well, its a law now, and your taxes haven't gone up yet, now have they? The unemployment figures haven't gone up in the past week.
More jobs haven't gone overseas where they can actually compete without crushing overhead, since last week. And next year, you will only see a little bit more tax."
And what about the year after that?
And the year after that?
And the year after that?
And the year after that?
Give it time, buddy. Give it time.