Oh no! President's Health Care Summit Like a ShamWow Commercial

[Jennicut]

Everyone knows Jonah Goldberg, Repub tool, right (National Review)? I caught this enlightening commentary while searching for news on the summit:


Planned healthcare summit is an infomercial in disguise
By Jonah Goldberg


The president has invited congressional Republicans to sit down and talk through healthcare at a big “bipartisan summit” on Feb. 25. Some think it’s a little late for such a conversation. After all, the Democrats have built their healthcare palace from the ground up, using only Democratic labor and Democratic input; they just can’t get it to pass inspection. So general contractor Obama invites Republicans to debate the blueprints, and just the blueprints. Oh, and he wants to debate them, not change them. Not really.

“The president doesn’t think we should start over,” White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer explained. Obama himself has said he’s committed to the existing bill(s) in the House and Senate. He just wants to hash out ideas with Republicans, in front of TV cameras, at a much-hyped summit because he thinks it would be good for America, or something. The Republicans can get whatever fixtures they want in the guest bathroom. Beyond that, they should just co-sign ObamaCare and shut up.

The best you can say about the effort is that it fits into the White House’s universal answer to all of its problems: “We just need to explain to these confused Americans how we’ve been right about everything.” To that end, the White House wants to use Republicans as a skeptical prop-audience in one last infomercial for the ShamWow of ObamaCare.

The worst you can say is that it’s a cynical trap, designed to make the GOP look out of touch, ill-informed and ideological. Indeed, there’s a bipartisan consensus growing in Washington that the whole thing is a setup. Obama is going to say “nice doggie” to Republicans right up until the moment he smashes them with a rolled-up 2,000-page healthcare bill.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/12/1965400/planned-healthcare-summit-is-an.html

No matter what the Repubs call it, it will still work in the Dem's favor if they play it right. And the Repubs hate that.

[still_one]

1. It won't work in anyones favor if it doesn't offer true reform /nt

[TwilightGardener]

2. Does it come from Germany? You know they always make good stuff.

(can't remember if that's the ShamWow or the SlapChop, actually)

[Jennicut]

4. It does come from Germany, actually.

I just Googled it. So perhaps Goldberg's insult was indirectly not an insult?

[TwilightGardener]

5. I like the part where he says Obama will say "Good doggies" and then

swat them with a 2000-page bill. That's actually what I hope happens.

[Jennicut]

6. Well, the other day they complained it was TOO SMALL. Too small, too big,

they just cannot make it clear what they prefer. :shrug:

[Nancy Waterman]

3. Sibellius had a big article in WP today

listing all the GOP ideas included in health care reform. As usual the GOP talking points are total garbage and completely dishonest.

the Democrats have built their healthcare palace from the ground up, using only Democratic labor and Democratic input

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022403657.html

[depakid]

7. Goldberg wouldn't even have a job without his mommy Lucianne

I'll never forget that idiot being ripped by Jon Stewart over his incoherent ramblings about the hate screeds in his book.