Following up on John's post that Obama will finally unveil his own health care plan next week, there's evidence that the Team Obama may have realized the Republicans were playing them:
Axelrod condemned recent comments by two chief Senate Republican negotiators - Charles Grassley of Iowa and Mike Enzi of Wyoming - who have sharply criticized key elements of Democrats' health care plans even as they insisted that a workable bipartisan plan was possible.Um, yeah. Some of us have been telling you that for months. But, the White House brain trust, led by Rahm Emanuel and Jim Messina (who are way, way smarter than everyone else) played along with Max Baucus and his futile bipartisan efforts. Well, look where that got Obama. Those dropping poll numbers speak for themselves.
Their remarks, Axelrod said, "were not exactly consistent with good-faith negotiations."
We just want Obama to be a leader, to be the leader he told us he'd be. That's all we're asking. It's why Obama won and that's what will get those poll numbers back up.
