Wed, Sep 9, 2009
H3: 09/09/09 Barack Obama health care speech
09090903 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 3 – Hugh covers the health care desperation speech to both Houses of Congress by Barack Obama.
09090903 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 3 – Hugh covers the health care desperation speech to both Houses of Congress by Barack Obama.
09090902 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 2 – Hugh talks health care reform in front of yet another Barack Obama prime time address with Dr. Robert Moffit of the Heritage Foundation.
09090901 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 1 – Hugh talks with National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg about Thomas Friedman’s love of dictatorship and health care reform, and then spends the remainder of the hour with Salem VP Lee Habib on the 1.3 million signature petition handed to Congress today.
Talk about underwhelming.
Most telling was the laughter at the phrase “there remain some details to be worked out,” which the president wasn’t counting on.
“Misinformation,” “bogus claims,” “scare tactics,” “such a charge would be laughable,’ “it is a lie plain and simple” –welcome to the bipartisanship of hope and change.
This speech may be rallying the left, but it isn’t doing anything to advance “bipartisan” solutions. It appears that the president has settled on a jam down, one built on the same lame arguments that have failed to persuade a majority or even a near majority of Americans.