Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on September 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
It’s been Barack Obama’s key legislative goal. Congress has been working on it for the last five months. Obama himself has gone on media campaigns and held prime-time press conferences pushing it.
And only now does Obama think to tell Congress what ObamaCare should do?
President Barack Obama, increasingly impatient with Senate negotiations over health care, is weighing a plan to offer more details of his goals for overhauling the nation’s health system, the White House said Tuesday.
The president is considering a speech in the next week or so in which he would be “more prescriptive” about what he feels Congress must include in a bill, top adviser David Axelrod said in an interview. The speech might occur before the Sept. 15 deadline that was given to Senate negotiators to seek a bipartisan bill, said Axelrod, who suggested that two key Republicans have not bargained in good faith.
Wait — this is priceless. Obama waited five months to finally divulge his demands for ObamaCare, and Axelrod says Republicans have bargained in bad faith? Maybe Axelrod would do better to tell his boss to stop outsourcing his work to Pelosi, Reid, & Co. and start getting to work a little sooner — perhaps in the next month or two.
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Many chickens are running around
Many of them have their heads cut off
blatantblue on September 2, 2009 at 8:06 AM
Trying to decide ?
WTF ?
Jeff2161 on September 2, 2009 at 8:07 AM
the uh dog erm ate uh my homeowrk….
//Chairman Soetoro
sven10077 on September 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Let him trot his plan out on 9/12, we will let him have the mike and our full attention. Putz.
TXMomof3 on September 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM
The President wanted to vote present.
yoda on September 2, 2009 at 8:09 AM
So, Obama didn’t want the ObamaCare version that he was pushing through late July and early August? But he does want the version he’ll be pushing through September.
For how long will he want that version before he disavows it and demands yet another version?
myrenovations on September 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM
So the previous five months have been nothing more than a very visible, very long trial balloon and only now are the democrats seriously considering what legislation to pass?
Skandia Recluse on September 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM
So, Barry is just considering whether there should be a public option spelling out his real plans for health care reform. However, Barry might decide to still keep his real plans secret.
Dear God, thank you for giving us the most transparent president since Honest Abe.
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 8:11 AM
What a strong decisive President Obama is. Yutz.
kingsjester on September 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Morning, Lox.
TXMomof3 on September 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Behaving like a petulant wife who’s pissed off her husband didn’t read her mind and purchase the right gift. Maybe he picked it up from Michelle.
Disturb the Universe on September 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
This is news? How many speeches in prime time has this bastard made in the last five months? How many town halls? How many photo-ops? The filthy liar is as bad as Schumer when it comes to wanting the constant glare of the television cameras. He never has anything to say but he gets his ego fix and for selfish bastards like Obama, that’s all that matters.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Basically all BO has is an pie in the sky theory. He waited for the dem leadership in house and senate to come up with the “plan”. Now, that it has failed miserably, he wants to come in with a more prescriptive “idea” of what health care reform should look like?
So, what has he been lecturing us serfs on these past two months? What a idiot!
jbh45 on September 2, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Profile in discouragement.
It’s almost as if Dear Leader is the type of person to vote “present” on many issues or punt on abortion as “above his pay grade.”
rbj on September 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
We must have National PoultryCare now!
It will save us lots of Buck! Buck! Buck! Buck! Buck! Buck! Buck!
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
I guess they’ve figured out that it’s now time to put a little lipstick and eyeliner on their pig.
TXUS on September 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Oh, he’s transparent enough. It’s just evil transparent, not good transparent.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Every time he speaks he lies through his teeth. He has lost all credibility. Americans, let’s make him a lame duck.
Christian Conservative on September 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Obama “Leadership” : Hold a finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. Demand Congress hold their fingers in the air as well. Consensus. Take credit. Affix blame if not successful.
Real Leadership : Leading from the front, telling the people you will lead them into hell and back, and have them look forward to the trip.
Anyone notice that none of this Obamacare has any Obama signature anywhere near it?
Cap and Tax, any of it…no Obama signature nor writing nor any paper trail back to Obama on any of it…until Congress passes it and sends it up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Leading from the rear is what got a lot of people killed over the centuries…Obama not trying to lead at all at this point would be a godsend.
coldwarrior on September 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Good morning, Mommy.
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Obama can’t be blamed for NOT stating his goals if they aren’t written out for him on TOTUS
Jeff from WI on September 2, 2009 at 8:18 AM
WARNING!—beware of any government official that makes the statement, “we want to help”. 99% of the time you can replace the word help with “tax you”, and have a correct prognosis/outcome.
Rovin on September 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM
He’s been selling his mythical plan where you can increase the number of those covered, increase the amount of services provided to all, with greater portablilty, greater choice in doctors, and without it costing a single cent more than the current system. The filthy liar in the White House was leaving it up to Congress to come up with the actual plan to do all that. They obviously cannot come up with such a plan but, now, its all the fault of those partisan Republicans, town hall thugs, and evil insurance companies.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:20 AM
This must be a musical,Alice in Liberal Wonderland!!
And it seems Team Hopey is busy as usual,blaming
and demonizing the Republican Party every time they
screw-up,with the help of Lefty media of course!!
canopfor on September 2, 2009 at 8:22 AM
God provided a written copy of the Ten Commandments. You would think TOTUS would be just as accomodating to the leader of America’s largest cult.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:22 AM
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:14 AM
He is the Paris Hilton of politics. If there is a camera anywhere near him he is posing. It comes naturally, he’s a poser.
milwife88 on September 2, 2009 at 8:23 AM
That’s a fowl idea Lox.
Rovin on September 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM
More like “Obama” a musical comedy where an ordinary street thug is accidentally elected President and the mayhem that ensues as a result of unqualified children running the country.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Well then, I’m sure you agree that we should all support Obama’s Cap and Trade:
Cap in 2010.
Trade in 2012.
Yes we can!
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM
In more than one meaning of that word.
He likes the trappings of office- the motorcades and jet planes, the deference and pomp, the constant attention from the media…… It’s just the leadership part that he isn’t interested in.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:27 AM
I LOVE a man who is consistent! And the Messiah (Crowned in a Greek Temple) is 100% consistent – he is a Lying, Marxist, Crack infested Chi-Town Gangster Commie – ALL of the time! What a guy!!!!!!!!
Cinday Blackburn on September 2, 2009 at 8:27 AM
You should specify, does that apply to cap and trade, the stimulus, health care, the omnibus spending bill that was larded with earmarks?
rob verdi on September 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM
But this is so Obama.
He votes present on everything, then he will just repackage everything in the current Democrat plans, using different labels and codewords and acronyms to make it sound different, but it will be the same pile of dung wrapped in a new package.
My hope is that he sends Michelle out to give speeches to promote his new plan. That will be the final end of it all.
albill on September 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Yes, we can!! And damn well better. 1236 days until a new President is sworn in.
coldwarrior on September 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM
this is how obama does everything.
Phoenician on September 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM
canopfor on September 2, 2009 at 8:22 AM
More like “Obama” a musical comedy where an ordinary street thug is accidentally elected President and the mayhem that ensues as a result of unqualified children running the country.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM
highhopes: Yours sounds more like a Fairytale Horror,ahem!
———:)
canopfor on September 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM
typical half-white person…
D2Boston on September 2, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Unfortunately for America, this is reality programming and not a stage production. The inmates are really running the asylum that is Congress. The children really are running the US into the ground and the biggest child of all is more interested in getting his vacation in than doing his job. If it were my child, I’d take away his phone privileges until he started doing his chores.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM
+100
cmsinaz on September 2, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Great point!
oldernwiser on September 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM
So champ, does that mean you will insist the current House bills be scrapped? As long as those bills are left intact, items in them that may be not be aligned with your new vision of reform will be part of a conference committee. The only path forward for you is to hit the reset button, insist the current House bills be shredded, and approach this whole process from a fresh start. Anything less will be perceived as a con job. In addition, bring specifics, not generalities.
ICBM on September 2, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Poultyist! Why do you hate our chickens in Congress?
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Why do you think Soros chose him? Certainly not to lead, just to make pretty, while Soros, Podesta, Axelrod, et al., do the heavy lifting — the dismantlement of America.
TXUS on September 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM
say huh?
typical horse crap….they could have passed this all on their own and yet BO will place the blame on the (R)s during this little speech of his….MSM will lap it up
I just want to pull my hair out….
cmsinaz on September 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Making a decision is hard for Barry.
Basically, he just wants to eat his waffle…vote present, make pretty speeches, shoot hoops, play golf…and be adored.
Barb Dwyer on September 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Sadly, it’s not a huge surprise that the Won is a train-wreck at almost everything. But almost anybody except the trolls can see that this is an admission of massive incompetence. So he’s been out pimping a plan that isn’t what he wanted? Or is it what he really wants, but doesn’t have the political skills to get it through in the face of opposition?
What the hell does this idiot cost us, and what has he been doing?
Think this is going to help his numbers? Watch them tank now. People will not be fooled by this cynical ploy.
mr.blacksheep on September 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Apparently above his pay grade.
coldwarrior on September 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Listen,
Obama didn’t come out with his own plan because then he would be held accountable for it. His letting Pelosi and Reid draw up their evil machinations meant that he could claim it wasn’t his, that it was the best he could get thereby allowing him to put the blame on someone else. Remember It’s all Bush’s fault; I inherited it; the economy was worse than we thought; jihad is a result of others not communicating correctly. (Not verbatim but the gist of what he has said)
The man boy has not learned to accept responsibility. Instead he only wants to glow in the light of acclaims from other’s work and dreads daylight shining on his work, (what little of it there is) because it is at best vacuous.
Duncan Khuver on September 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
This is not the ObamaCare plan I knew.
jwolf on September 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Nothing to worry about. It’s just one of those quest games.
Barry knows the secret clue is hidden somewhere between the green on the ninth hole and Camp David. He has vowed to continue the search to save the health of all of us.
He shall return once he has the truth in hand.
Yoop on September 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM
QOTD, right there.
B Man on September 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Don’t be surprised when he will be ‘less prescriptive’…it will be the same rhetoric he has been spewing for the last 5 mths…
cmsinaz on September 2, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Sounds pretty much like what O.J. Simpson did when he started trying to find his wife’s killer on the greens in Florida.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM
What’s sad about this is that the state-run media will hail it as brilliant strategery and give him a pass for totally f-ing this thing up. Barry’s going down in a ball of flame and the SRM want us to think he is Zeus.
rockmom on September 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Well, shake it up Barry now!
Shake it up Barry!
Twist and shout!
Twist and shout!
Come on, come on, come on, come on Barry, now!
Come on Barry!
Come on and work it on out!
Work it on out!
Well, work it on out, honey!
Work it on out!
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM
+1
rockmom on September 2, 2009 at 8:50 AM
This IS the Obamacare plan I knew and, like rotting fish, it doesn’t get better with age. The filthy liar can hold a telethon until Congress passes his plan but it still doesn’t change the fundamental fact that this is bad legislation that needs to be started over if not scrapped altogether.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Looks to me like this has turned into Ashes of Love.
Adios, Barry, a pox on whatever you do.
Lincoln Cadillac on September 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
How about on 9/12? Bring it. These fools really don’t get it.
labwriter on September 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
That’s plum purty…
ladyingray on September 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM
A fantasy of mine, I know, but I do wish that his final decision would be to STEP DOWN AND GO AWAY.
I’d rather have the humor of the biden bumble daily than have to stress out over this fascist communists actions and subversions daily.
Spiritk9 on September 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM
What’s go great about this is how pissed the Left is about it all.
Barry really has united this country. It’s true.
Now everybody is against him.
B Man on September 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM
CLASSIC!
I say that Obama should get on television every night during prime time and keep preaching universal health care until his approval rating drops well below what Bush’s was. Although I’m sick of seeing him on television (and most of us are) the result of further narcissism on his part could be just what we’re looking for in this president.
kscheuller on September 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM
That is bordering on sacrilege…
ladyingray on September 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Who is this Biden person you speak of? There used to be a Senator by that name but he’s completely disappeared along with the Secretary of State.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM
maybe he’s learning from the Palestinians. After 60 years of demanding a state, they finally wrote down a plan for how they see their state.
Phoenician on September 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM
These constant speeches really are annoying. The media calls them campaigning for healthcare. I call it the political version of holding one’s breath until they get their way.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Well, they both hate Jews.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 9:00 AM
My hope is that he sends Michelle out to give speeches to promote his new plan. That will be the final end of it all.
albill on September 2, 2009
Michelle Obama is writing a series of health care reform speeches to be delivered soon. She is currently sequestered at an undisclosed location deep in the forests of Washington State. She does come out from time to time and there are a few obscure, grainy photos of her but no hard evidence as to her whereabouts. Cryptozoologists are searching for her now.
SKYFOX on September 2, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Oh, goodie! Another speech. I think I’m busy that night.
Beaglemom on September 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Well said, however I think the point here is that the dude has been pimpin’ the plan for 5 months. Now suddenly he doesn’t want the plan he’s been pimpin’.
Key West Reader on September 2, 2009 at 9:11 AM
C’mon.Um all he has is speeches.
Really…all he has. What else does a community organizer, law instructor and junior associate know?
He sure wouldn’t be adept at actually designing a process or business model.
IlikedAUH2O on September 2, 2009 at 9:13 AM
It will be interesting to me to see who pays attention to the latest Obama proclamations on health care. I haven’t heard anything new from him since the campaign. But I realize, though not uncommon for members of this forum, I am probably not representative of the general population. However, it is clear that few are listening to him anymore. It seems whatever details he does provide will be too little, too late. Will the result be the boy who cried wolf too many times?
drocity on September 2, 2009 at 9:15 AM
If at this late date and endless debate Sheik Abu Barack al-Husseini ibn Obooba is just beginning to consider telling congress what he wants in the plan, and his plan of action is to consider whether or not to make a speech about it, it’s safe to say that he is the very personification of “effete.”
“Toast is ready!”
Akzed on September 2, 2009 at 9:16 AM
He [Obama] sure wouldn’t be adept at actually designing a process or business model.
IlikedAUH2O on September 2, 2009 at 9:13 AM
It’s worse than that. Not only can he not design anything, he cannot even evaluate what someone else designs. All he can do is agitate and give empty speeches filled with platitudes.
jwolf on September 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Obama is only “weighing a plan to offer more details of his goals for overhauling the nation’s health system, the White House said Tuesday.” There’s no guarantee he will and there’s also no guarantee it will be all his “demands”, only that he’ll be “more prescriptive” than he had been previously, which has been pretty much zilch up to now.
Dusty on September 2, 2009 at 9:21 AM
His problem is that he’s been selling a plan that doesn’t exist in any substantive form. It is still in the stage where everything is included but the funding hasn’t been figured out to the point that things start getting cut. The filthy liar has hedged his bets on the public option but he’s on the record as supporting a plan that is impossible to acheive without either raising the deficit even higher into the stratosphere or cutting people’s health benefits.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Just to be clear: Sacrilege against Barry or the Beatles?
Loxodonta on September 2, 2009 at 9:26 AM
What else do you expect from a Chicago street thug? Look at the filthy liar’s record. All he has done is tear things down. He’s never been responsible for building things up.
highhopes on September 2, 2009 at 9:26 AM
What amazes me the most about this whole debacle is that the ONE thing Barack Obama offered to the nation was a modicum of experience as a Senator. Yet the state-run media refuse to call him out for his utter incompetence in getting anything moving in the Senate. And while it stalled in the Senate, the House Blue Dogs had time to read the House bill and start squawking about it.
Just. Gross. Incompetence.
rockmom on September 2, 2009 at 9:32 AM
This seems to be their plan from the beginning on everything they do. Get the program started then worry about the details. Cash for clunkers still hasn’t paid the dealers the rebate. They took workers from the FAA to assist with the paperwork. Talk about letting the horse run away with no idea how to close the barn door.
Kissmygrits on September 2, 2009 at 9:33 AM
You just can’t make this stuff up.
This has to be the Obamateurism of the week.
tru2tx on September 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Not the healthcare bill he thought he knew.
LibTired on September 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM
The utter disdain these people hold for the citizens of our great country is just remarkable to behold. They must think we’re total idiots. The payback is going to be immense.
JimK on September 2, 2009 at 10:00 AM
THe MSM told us this administration was the smartest ever, but rational people know this is far from the truth. I have seen nothing but mistake upon mistake. This “news” is just a continuation of a series of huge errors.
Sure, go on television on prime time–everybody is SICK of seeing you on television. Give the American public details NOW after trying to convince us this had to be done yesterday–yeah, that builds trust.
Look folks, their bumbling incompetence is on full display. (Bundle in the political appeal to school children and the full impact of the timing, and the amateurism could not be more exquisite.)
I agree with Napolean Bonaparte: Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
DrStock on September 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Does it really matter what this President says to the American public in an effort to sell this Health Care bill? Is there anyone left in the country with any sense, that believes one friggen word that passes his lips? The charade is over, the MSM is starting to back off their Obamasexual tendencies and this bill is done like dinner. Even if he attempts to abandon the public option as POLITICO suggests, he’s lost credibility with Americans, including many Dems and most centrists. Its over.
Syd B. on September 2, 2009 at 10:10 AM
OBAMA: “Maybe I should write my own bill. How do I do that exactly?”
RAHM: “Here Mr. Present, I mean President. Let’s start by using a Black Crayon instead of that Fucia color.”
PappaMac on September 2, 2009 at 10:12 AM
His monthly bill for Preparation H must be astronomical and he must have the a mega case of hemorrhoids from all of the stuff he pulls out of his ass.
VoyskaPVO on September 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Pelosi, Reid, Baucus, Waxman are all mind readers. They knew what he wanted
Herb on September 2, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Sarah Palin called this one a year ago: “This is the same man who has authored two memoirs but not a single piece of legislation.” Did anyone really think that “Hope and change” would mean that we could hope that Obama would change and learn to actually legislate or lead?
Roxeanne de Luca on September 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM
but here is what bambi has done wrong: he’s left Congress on the hook for this. many Dem Congressmen will lose their jobs next year because of bambi. i would think the dems in Congress would be hating him now.
kelley in virginia on September 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM
The only reason he’s having to “consider” letting us all in on his plans for health care is because of the resistance at the town halls. Public opinion is dead-set against this boondoggle of a plan, and we all know whose fault that is. We’re just not the Americans that Obama thought he knew.
Left Coast Right Mind on September 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM
But . . . but . . . that might cut into his vacation schedule, disrupt his golf time, and reduce his mirror-gazing.
Man’s gotta have his priorities, and we know hard work is not one of Barry’s.
AZCoyote on September 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM
“This is not the health care bill I knew.”
Someone had to.
jukin on September 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM
How are they ever going to come home to roost if they can’t see where they’re going?
UltimateBob on September 2, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Axelrod says Obama needs to make a speech that will clarify what Obama wants to be included in Obamacare and Dodd wants Obama to reframe the debate on Obamacare. What did Obama want these guys to pass before the August 7 recess if we (including congress) STILL do not know what Obama really wants (or needs)?
jerseyman on September 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Obama must be getting desperate. The One does not normally commit His thoughts to paper where they can be examined and debated by the masses.
I’ve always enjoyed the MSM and Obama talking about ‘his health care plan’. As if it actually existed anywhere other than in his head. Just like all His other ‘accomplishments’.
GarandFan on September 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM
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