Obamateurism of the Day

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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