The Washington Post’s Dan Balz reports today on the left’s growing doubts about Obama.
The “immediate cause for the rebellion,” he writes, is fear that the public option will be sacrificed, but that has given way to “broader criticisms,” such as: “Is Obama tough enough to defeat the interests arrayed against health-care legislation?”
What “interests” would those be? The AMA? Hospitals? Big Pharma? The AARP? Last time I looked (about 30 seconds ago), all the “interests” I could think of were supporting Obama’s proposals (whatever they are). And when’s the last time you saw an ad opposing the legislation sponsored by the insurance industry?
Would someone from the left please provide a list of the “interests” blocking Obama’s reform?
i doubt insurance companies support his plan.
>> “i doubt insurance companies support his plan.”
“Obama’s health care plan helped by drug industry — Assist from drug industry in trying to help Obama remake the nation’s health care system”
DAVID ESPO
AP News
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/08/obamas_health_care_plan_helped_by_drug_industry.php
This has been a favorite leftist tactic since Lenin/Stalin, who ably perfected it. By constantly keeping their supposed allies focused on phantom threats of “counter-revolution” they could simultaneously keep them agitated about the supposed impending (tsarist/reactionary/conservative) counter-attack while at the same time preventing them from uniting against him in the face of obvious failures. See “The Russian Revolutions of 1917” by Leonard Schapiro, (or any other such history) for greater detail.
Orwell deftly portrays this in “Animal Farm” through how Napoleon repeatedly uses the specter of the “evil Snowball” to explain away every bad occurrence even though no evidence is ever produced.
Plus ca change…