There is a little bit of everything in here: immigration, health care, foreign policy, etc. The interesting part of this is: what if, in this Health Care debate, Obama is letting all the anger, frustration, and suspicion get out of the way before he tries anything meaningful? I don't know if this is what is planned or happening, but the past week (if you've been unlucky ennough to watch any cable news) has been people shouting and generally flipping out.
I pondered this when I read:
"Mr. Obama predicted that he would be successful but acknowledged the challenges, saying, 'I’ve got a lot on my plate.' He added that there would almost certainly be 'demagogues out there who try to suggest that any form or pathway for legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable.”
The same basic policy is going to happen. The more conservative parts of the GOP will flip and there will be a week of non-stop shouting before anything meaningful is brought to the public eye.
I reference Thomas PM Barnett: We Need a Loyal and Strong GOP - why the GOP is, yes, somewhat useful. Or at least could be if they had ideas. Also, John Stewart, on how this cycle is working.
Maybe the White House dropped the ball on health care in not forcing it through. However, with the way American politics works - emotional, pandering, soundbytes, incomplete ideas, and otherwise utterly incoherent - the outcry over any health care reform was bound to be loud, strong, and utterly baseless because of the general lack of ideas.
The state of American politics is best exemplified by the GOP response to the problem. Once a certain segment of the population flipped, and Fox News found their haymaker of an issue to bash, the GOP utterly abandoned any pretense of provinding alternative ideas, bringing up sound points and issues with working towards resolution, or generally attempting to create something workable and immidiately tried to make health care Obama's 'Waterloo.' Immigration, I suspect, will follow largely the same path.
With opposition like that, who needs enemies?
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