Reply #7: LBJ vs. Bill and Hillary Clinton [View All]

[question everything]

LBJ used his literal bully pulpit to pull Medicare. He knew how to play the game, knew where all the skeletons were buried and, in those days, people could have secret and not so secret meetings to debate and to compromise without any jerk with a cell phone recording their talks and snapping pictures.

The Clintons came with their own detailed programs but were considered outsiders - even and including by the Democrats in Congress until the day they left.

So this White House decide to let Congress come with solutions and, it appears, it backfired.

Still interesting of whether, indeed, the public option was voted down in focus group.

On the other hand, one has to wonder how many of the ones who voted it down back in 2006, now lost their jobs and their employer-provided insurance and would now embrace such an option.