How lame

I have a feeling, as much as I don't want to talk about health care it will be here well past the mid-term election. Since if it does pass, you know Republicans will be using the vote as a stick to whip the Democrats in those tough districts that are represented by a Democrat but voted overwhelmingly Bush/McCain in the last couple of elections. The reps in those districts, their political incentives are basically at odds with the leadership. The leadership (Hoyer,Pelosi,Clyburn,etc.) are all in very safe liberal districts. The fact that of the 253 House Democrats, 45 represent districts that voted for McCain is a math problem for Pelosi to get this bill passed. Yes she did get one flip, Kucinich on Tuesday turned into a 'yes' after voting 'no' last year. One nice flight on Air Force One by Pres. Obama apparently changed his mind. I wonder if they let him sit in the cockpit with the pilot, gave him his plastic wings and sent him on his way impressed with the whole thing?

Yesterday though was that interview with Bret Baier. Whoa! Props to the President for sitting with a real journalist asking hard questions. But man did he come off like an amateur or what? On the defensive from minute one, never answering one question, I haven't seen interview squirming like that since Frost/Nixon. He clearly was lost without TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The United States). The whole reason he lowered himself to go on FOX was so that he could sell centrist Dem's and Independents this debacle of a plan. If that was the goal, it failed.
Best question Bret threw at him all night was:
"Monday in Ohio, you called for courage in the health care debate. At the same time, House Speaker Pelosi was saying this to reporters about the deem and pass rule: 'I like it, this scenario, because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill.' Is that the kind of courage that you're talking about?" Nice. He was so off his game that he made up a disaster in Hawaii:


Hilarious stuff. At times I felt maybe the President was doing a sketch for The Daily Show it was so phony and off the wall. Well check it out yourself and enjoy the dancing, the stonewalling, and the rambling. I love how Bret always gets back to the original question even after the long-winded BS. This is your President:



Seth Leibsohn writing over at National Review Online summarized it perfectly:

Bret Baier just concluded the single best interview of President Obama in a year, by any reporter. He was resilient in the face of the president’s obvious attempts to run down the clock by stonewalling; Bret continually hammered a series of questions the president did not want, and yet he was polite in explaining to the president the meaning of the questions just in case they were not what the president was familiar with (see the question about Connecticut for example). It was a model of how not to be cowed by a strong and charismatic leader and a model of a truly independent anchor/reporter. President Obama knew he didn’t have Bret at the very end when his last effort at victimhood was to sarcastically hang his head to the side in response to Bret’s saying he didn’t mean to interrupt, as if Bret were being insincere — which he wasn’t. Anyone who watches the interview can see who was stalling, who was running the clock, who was refusing to answer the questions, and why polite interruption was exactly what was needed. It was a model. If any of the MSM can watch it and conclude anything it is that FNC deserves a) its ratings and b) kudos for being truly independent from the herd of faux independent minds, the likes of which Howell Raines seems to esteem. Bret showed the rest of the press how to do it from now on.