If David Plouffe doesn’t get it, should we expect President Obama too…
If David Plouffe doesn’t get it, should we expect President Obama to. After all David Plouffe, was campaign manager of Obama for America and Obama-Biden 2008, and the author of “Audacity to Win.” Now Mr. Plouffe will become the White House’s point man for the 2010 mid-term elections, and I have no reservations about David Plouffe’s abilities as a political campaign strategist, he is the best of the best, 2008 established that fact if no other. It’s the no other part I’m going to touch on now. The complete lack of understanding of what the American people want.
My comments now are in direct response to David Plouffe’s Op-ED in the Washington Post Sunday January 24, 2010. If President Obama takes to heart and proceeds with David Plouffe’s advice, the Republicans will win big in November 2010. And the President will serve the remaining two years of his term as a lame duck, with not a snowball’s chance in hell to be reelected to a second term.
If your time is short and you haven’t the time to read David Plouffe’s OP-ED above, then allow me a few short paragraphs of your time to share David’s words and then my ‘Harsh Cry of Reason.’
David Plouffe; “Add to that a historic economic crisis, stubborn unemployment and the pain that both have inflicted on millions of Americans, and you have a recipe for a white-knuckled ride for many of our candidates. But not if Democrats do what the American people sent them to Washington to do. In 2006 and 2008, voters sent an unmistakable message: We want decisive change. This was not just a change of political parties. Instead of a government that works for the entitled and special interests, a government that looks out for Wall Street, they wanted a government that works better for them, a government that plays the role it should to help foster the security of the middle class. Many of last year’s accomplishments are down payments on those principles. We still have much to do before November, and time is running short. Every race has unique characteristics, but there are a few general things that Democrats can do to strengthen our hand.”
Dr. Quack; Mr. Plouffe never goes on to say just what the President’s and the Democratic Congress’s accomplishments from last year were. I can’t see any noticeable, visible, or financial change from the landscape of yesteryear, to now. I hear (1) million to (2) million jobs saved and created…can’t see it. And the so-called jobs saved and created by President Obama and the Democratic Congress are public sector jobs. These jobs regardless of the Stimulus would have been created, kept, sustained or cut due to their importance and or relevance to important services, police, medical, government…etc. And frankly, any Administration using a saved job as part of their count for successful stimulus, is giving us hocus pocus, smoke and mirror illusion. Yes, America did want change, but President Obama and the Democrats promised “Change we can believe in” and we got instead, ‘Change Obama and the Left Wing Loonies can believe in.’ BIG DIFFERENCE in delivering what the people really wanted. Then again, maybe you are one of the millions that has gotten, what they wanted. That would be the Non-transparent (Though Promised to be) ideological (Though Obama denied being an Ideologue) President and Administration they are!!! This Administration, has produced more behind the door, closed session negotiations, smoked filled bargaining than Hugo Chavez and his Administration in Venezuela. Harsh comment you say. Then consider this, with Hugo you know where he stands on issues and governing, no transparency, is transparency with Hugo. However, President Obama ran a presidential campaign in 2008 on transparency, and a change on how Washington runs, but has given Americans in his first year of office the presumption along with Congress of being secretive, and egomaniacal. Several months of no press conferences, closed door sessions at the White House and Congressional Building to deal with specific legislation. Child like games with the media, all to what end. Again I ask, is this ‘Change we can believe in’?
David Plouffe; “Voters are always smarter than they are given credit for. We need to make our case on the economy and jobs — and yes, we can remind voters where Republican policies led us — and if we do, without apology and with force, it will have impact.”
Dr. Quack; Need I say anything but, “tell me that statement above isn’t an oxymoron.”
David Plouffe; “Pass a meaningful health insurance reform package without delay. Americans’ health and our nation’s long-term fiscal health depend on it. I know that the short-term politics are bad. It’s a good plan that’s become a demonized caricature. But politically speaking, if we do not pass it, the GOP will continue attacking the plan as if we did anyway, and voters will have no ability to measure its upside. If we do pass it, dozens of protections and benefits take effect this year. Parents won’t have to worry their children will be denied coverage just because they have a preexisting condition. Workers won’t have to worry that their coverage will be dropped because they get sick. Seniors will feel relief from prescription costs. Only if the plan becomes law will the American people see that all the scary things Sarah Palin and others have predicted — such as the so-called death panels — were baseless. We own the bill and the health-care votes. We need to get some of the upside. (P.S.: Health care is a jobs creator.)”
Dr. Quack; Read again David’s argument for passing an unwanted healthcare package.
David; But politically speaking, if we do not pass it, the GOP will continue attacking the plan as if we did anyway, and voters will have no ability to measure its upside…” He goes on to say, “Parents won’t have to worry their children will be denied coverage just because they have a preexisting condition. Workers won’t have to worry that their coverage will be dropped because they get sick. Seniors will feel relief from prescription costs.”
Dr. Quack; OK, I Dr. Quack can agree with those (3) points David Plouffe makes in his Op-Ed, but then so does 99% of Americans. So David, Mr. President and Congress, why not take three pieces of paper and legislate these three key points into laws to protect Americans, and guide the healthcare industry into better coverage, rather than the albatross legislation for Healthcare Reform currently in the Senate and House versions. Any legislation written loosely with intent for partisan interpretation after passing, is a bad and corrupt Bill! Small bites Mr. President, stop speaking with your mouth full, it only sounds garbled and that’s what the people of the greatest Nation on earth are only hearing, mumbo jumbo. David Plouffe should remind the President no holds barred, of one thing, and he himself wrote it in the above OP-Ed…”Voters are always smarter than they are given credit for.” If the President is as sharp as many say, then he’ll do right, by the Nation he serves.
There are several points in David Plouffe’s Op-Ed we could discuss, but I encourage you to read the article for yourself. Without referring back to Plouffe’s January 24th Op-Ed, many of his bullet points I’ll be writing on over the days, weeks and months to come, no need to use Mr. Plouffe’s Op-Ed as purpose.
I’m Dr. Quack, with the harsh cry of Reason…01 28 10
