Found your blog after being incensed by Williams’ opening editorial last night. I tend to really like the guy. But what happened to DELIVERING THE NEWS? Let it spin itself. Your job is to UNSPIN it, Brian.

Thanks for the post.

You spent ten minutes of your commentary on healthcare interviewing Americans who are angry about the bill. This is so typical of the media. Today the Gallup poll determined that more people are happy with the bill than unhappy…But you continue to show anti-Obama demonstrations and interview some random couple who are unhappy and distrustful, and supposedly democratic….their interview went on forever. Well, it is time to give the other 50% of Americans a voice. Enough with the Tea Party and their disrespectful racial slurs and horrendous signs. The media portrays these people as the voice of America. Shame on you Brian Williams. I guess I see a different America than the one you color on your show.

Who’s the guy assigned to keep Obama’s ego in check?

A slave must whisper in his ear, “Memento mori“.

Only then can you give out the panum et circenses.

The lede for the HC story should be that Obama is so weak, the Dems are so fractured and their HC bill so unpopular that it took nearly a year of intense time commitment and a bucket of bribes to squeak out a narrow victory. Based upon the Dem majorities in 2009, a powerful prez pushing a popular cause should have gotten this done in weeks. This is really a pathetic performance resulting in a flawed bill that increases access at great cost (in terms of taxes, deficits, harm to Medicare, restrictions on individual freedoms, etc)

If all we wanted were access, then a program of charity clinics with means-tested and asset-tested co-pays would have been much simpler and less intrusive. Those who truly can’t afford insurance at least get basic care and those that should have been able to afford insurance (based upon income and assets) but chose to spend elsewhere get garnisheed or lose their LCD TVs.

I don’t think I agree with you on this issue fading from memory quickly, since the first impact will be significant hikes in insurance rates. Its already happening, if what I see on Karl Denningers site (The Market Ticker) is true. Insurance companies can no longer mitigate risk through caps on coverage or refusal to take sick people in who apply for insurance. So they will mitigate through higher premiums, much higher premiums. This is inevitable, and will be spun by Obama as greedy companies ripping off their customers. Of course this will be another in a long line of lies about this plan, since the plan itself will cause this effect. I suspect that these increases will keep the issue front and center for quite a while, as the people who will pay for this monstrosity see just how much. By 2012, the impacts will be obvious and the most divisive President ever will be sent packing, along with whatever remains of the left at that point. His only hope is demogoguery, which attempts to shift blame to insurance companies, which might work, but more likely will seem desparate and pointless. Assuming of course he hasn’t triggered a collapse in the bond market by then with his reckless borrowing and spending.

Keep Obama’s ego in check? That’s like trying to keep Nancy Pelosi from flying around in jetliners and boozing it up on the taxpayer’s dime. Sic transit gloria.

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