Remember when..." Obama cements his legacy as health care reform bill passes"

[jenmito]

A little over a year into his presidency and Barack Obama has managed to do what none of his predecessors were able to do -- overhaul the nation's health care system. Since the days of FDR to Truman to Clinton, and almost every President in between, all have attempted to improve the country's health care system and all have failed, until now.

The desire to provide affordable coverage to all Americans has been on President Obama's agenda since the very beginning of his campaign for the presidency. In a dramatic Sunday vote, the House approved 219 to 212 a bill identical to one already passed in the Senate and cemented Obama's legacy as the president who managed to get health care reform. The historic legislation, signed on Tuesday, is meant to provide coverage for approximately 32 million of the nation's uninsured.

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2010/03/obama-cements-his-legacy-as-he-002612.php


But now he's a Jimmy Carter-esque one term president? I don't think so!

[Skittles]

1. it was health insurance reform

no guarantee to healthcare

[Clio the Leo]

2. ehhh .... he'll be out by the end of the week....

.... the GOP will use their 41 member super-majority in the Senate to tell the House to impeach him for letting BP make that awful commercial .... or for .... I dunno .... somethin' .... and then we can all look forward to lots of photo threads dedicated to Mitt Romney and his awesome hair kept nice and shiny with oil harvested fresh from the Gulf.

It will be superfun!

[muntrv]

3. I think a more accurate analogy would be Reagan in 1982.

Reagan, like Obama, was going through a crappy economy and pundits said that Ronnie will be a 1 term pres.

[xchrom]

4. I think Ronnie and Barack would do really

Well together on a bi-partisan commission.

Everyone else would be fucked but they'd do great.

[dflprincess]

5. A president signing legislation that sells the public out to corporate interests is hardly historic

it's pretty much SOP.

And calling this scam health care reform, won't make it so.

[emulatorloo]

7. I'm hearing it was a Nazi Socialist take-over of healthcare with Commie Czars and everything.

Maybe it lies in the middle somewhere.

Anyway this is all so summer of 2009. We have different fish to fry.

[dflprincess]

8. We have a lot of fish to fry

including the ongoing fight for actual health care reform.

[impik]

10. And some death panels on the top

[jaxx]

6. I don't think so either.....but not everyone wants to look at the successes.

Easier to carp and tell him what to do.

[impik]

9. He was called Jimmy Carter-esque one term president 6 months into his presidency

He couldn't care less.

[Jennicut]

11. You know, the public should have listened to old Jimmy Carter on energy conservation.

Funny how Reagan, the idiot that took the solar panels off the WH, is looked at in a better way then Jimmy Carter was.