It just really sticks in my craw, how President Obama bent over backwards to be nice to Republicans at the outset of the "Health Care Debate". Obama basically said that Republicans needed to be nice to him, because Republicans who weren't nice to him would suffer the anger of an outraged public who LOVE the President.
So,
1) The President was being pre-emptively nice to Republicans, expecting them to return the favor, and to act in their best interest.
But more astoundingly,
2) The President was doing his best to help Republicans get re-elected: "Vote for my health care law, and you will get re-elected."
...and this was when the Democrats had majorities in the House and the Senate. The president's strategy should have been, "Let's get a really populist health care bill through Congress and to my desk - one which the American people will love and which the Republicans will all vote against. Then we will get even MORE Democrats in Congress as the Republicans suffer popular disdain."
But no.
So,
1) The President was being pre-emptively nice to Republicans, expecting them to return the favor, and to act in their best interest.
But more astoundingly,
2) The President was doing his best to help Republicans get re-elected: "Vote for my health care law, and you will get re-elected."
...and this was when the Democrats had majorities in the House and the Senate. The president's strategy should have been, "Let's get a really populist health care bill through Congress and to my desk - one which the American people will love and which the Republicans will all vote against. Then we will get even MORE Democrats in Congress as the Republicans suffer popular disdain."
But no.
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