The Obamas Leave Town
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
The Obama family is off for a week of summer vacation. This is something Barack owes Michelle and the girls, although I am sure he would personally have preferred to stay in Washington listening to people tell him what to do about health care.
The president is getting no end of helpful suggestions. Right now there is probably a caddy on Martha’s Vineyard wondering if he will be picked to carry Barack’s clubs, and if so, whether there will be time to put in a plug for the public option.
The Republicans say if Obama wants a bill that can pass, he should pay more attention to their ideas. Particularly the one about how he has to make the whole thing cheaper without getting the government in the business of reducing health care costs.
Democrats want him to stop betraying the party’s progressive base by being all kumbaya and bipartisan just because he won the election by being all kumbaya and bipartisan.
(More here.)
NYT
The Obama family is off for a week of summer vacation. This is something Barack owes Michelle and the girls, although I am sure he would personally have preferred to stay in Washington listening to people tell him what to do about health care.
The president is getting no end of helpful suggestions. Right now there is probably a caddy on Martha’s Vineyard wondering if he will be picked to carry Barack’s clubs, and if so, whether there will be time to put in a plug for the public option.
The Republicans say if Obama wants a bill that can pass, he should pay more attention to their ideas. Particularly the one about how he has to make the whole thing cheaper without getting the government in the business of reducing health care costs.
Democrats want him to stop betraying the party’s progressive base by being all kumbaya and bipartisan just because he won the election by being all kumbaya and bipartisan.
(More here.)
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