Wednesday, September 09, 2009

The Blue Dog Problem for President Obama

CNN News: Reports that a leading Blue Dog Democrat, House of Representatives member, Mike Ross has stated he will not support a health care bill with a public option. The main problem for President Obama is not the Republicans, its his own Liberal base, if he does support a moderate health care reform bill, the Liberal base will go bonkers, thus Obama will have sweet talk them around, they can hardly vote against the first African - American Democratic President over such an important policy. Thus President Obama will have to turn on the LBJ treatment for his own party, he will need them to support his moderate policy and keep their mouths shut, otherwise you have a split party and the Republicans have a chance of taking Congress in 2010.

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