Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact: Get Involved

When Obama got into office, he had a filibuster-proof Senate. He also knew he didn't have the luxury of that filibuster-proof Senate for long - Two Democratic senators were on death's door (Kennedy & Byrd). In spite of that fact, he slammed the brakes on healthcare reform, slowed everything down to a crawl, declared it was "Congress's job to come up with a healthcare reform bill", he wasn't going to get involved, except that any bill he signed must have a public option. Then Obama went to work undermining the committees writing the legislation in Congress, & l!ed about it when caught red-handed. Obama made deals with PhRma, hospitals, the AMA, and the insurance industry, undercutting the committees working on controlling medical costs.



Now that Ted Kennedy has d!ed, even without a filibuster-proof Senate, Democrats control the Senate by a greater margin than either party has had in decades. Still Obama doesn't (and didn't) pressure the Blue Dogs, or threaten Lieberman with loss of his committee chairmanship.



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