I haven't seen any threads on President Obama's bipartizan conference on his party's health care proposals. This may go nowhere but as an info junkie marooned at his mother's apartment with no internet connection, and forced to watch TV this week, I saw quite a bit of the six hour plus extravaganza and I have to say that I think it was a brilliant piece of political theatre.

As a Canadian I don't really follow America's internal domestic political issues to the extent that I have been watching the international fandango she has been putting on since 9/11. (Picture chattering teeth and clouds of fingernail pairings flying through the air. What will she do next?)

But like Alex from A Clockwork Orange, I was forced to "viddy" the world through my Mom's TV set for a week.

However, despite the tsunami of other dreck on the tube, it was completely absorbing to hear those legislators go at it with a lot of intellectual acumen and some style and really give an issue an airing out that had to be very informative for American voters. Never again will I think of America as, basically, Tammy Faye Baker plus hootin' n' hollerin' military hillbillies supported by a cast of millions of Artie Langes.

To my eyes at least, the President looked very able, the legislators looked able as well, though philosophically divided and I think Obama may just persuade Americans that 51% (required to ram his legislation through in the so-called "reconciliation process") is a number they can live with.


[edit on 26-2-2010 by ipsedixit]

Well, you are incorrect on this not being on here. Several other threads. But this is NOT a democratic form of govt., it is a REPUBLIC. And he does not need a simple majority on anything, just the necessary votes. Thisis why that loser from Nevada is talking about the Nuclear Option. They are going to shove this Communism, or Democratic Socialism if you want to call it by its Soviet Union name, down our throats in spite of us. I do not think they care about reelection, because they are working at dismantling the Congress, and making Baraq the President for life. A rose by any other name is still a despot. The NWO people must think this is amusing, to pull it off with an African, Muslim Communist.
The Rebumblicans came well prepared with reams of facts, and it was countered by emotional crap by the Rats. Something I am surprised you did not 'get'. There was no equal splitting of 'screentime', and the Big Smelly Rat cut off people when they were talking, to show 'his' version of correct. No respect for them, no respect for the American public, no respect for 'whitey'. The man is pure evil, and I can not wait until he is histoire I really expect him to be dishonorably exposed for the fraud and con man he is, soon.

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