I hate to say this, but if Obama really wanted to get a health care bill this summer, he probably should have made fewer overseas trips. Foreign policy is important. But so is working the phones to get your domestic agenda -- the one you were elected to enact -- passed. Let Hillary handle the world community for now.
That said, I am glad to see that Obama is getting into the trenches now. If y'all have not called your members of Congress yet to demand they get off their butts and get something passed -- to it first thing Monday morning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901465_pf.htmlSix months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.
With skepticism about the president's health-care reform effort mounting on Capitol Hill -- even within his own party -- the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to dramatically increase public pressure on Congress: all Obama, all the time.
Senior White House aides promise "an aggressive public and private schedule" for Obama as he presses his case for reform, including a prime-time news conference on Wednesday, a trip to Cleveland, and heavy use of Internet video to broadcast his message beyond the reach of the traditional media.