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Lipstick On A Pig: Obama Willing To Settle For Anything On HCR?

By Big Tent Democrat

Via John Aravosis, The Hill reports:

Are Democrats dialling down expectations on what can be acheived under the banner of healthcare reform this year? Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) seems to be concerned they are. Rockefeller emerged from the Senate Democrats' weekly luncheon Tuesday afternoon, which featured an appearance by President Barack Obama's communications guru David Axelrod, wondering aloud (perhaps rhetorically) whether the White House's get-it-done message to Congress wasn't bold enough.

"David’s in there -- Axelrod -- saying we’ve got to try to get ‘something.’ So, the new benchmark is, ‘Well, if we can do something, if we can do anything, then we can say we did healthcare reform,’" Rockefeller said.

If that's true, that would provide the answer regarding the efficacy of Obama's Theory of Change. It would be, in the words of Dick Gephardt, a miserable failure.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).