TPM's video montage of Obama promising, proding & pushing for HCR in 2009 has been getting a lot of attention 'round the political blogs today. See it here. Politico has pushed it as TPM & Josh M "mocking" the president. But that's not what it seems to say to me, however. To me, this shows just how Obama did in 2009 EXACTLY what DK, FDL, TPM, etc. said he has NOT done ... [more]
He has gone out to town halls, pressers, spent his political capital to move Congress to get this done.
Yet somehow it all keeps coming back to Obama didn't lead and he wasn't forceful enough.
So if that is true, then where is video collection of Harry Reid & Nancy Pelosi putting their butts on the line like Obama did for HCR?
This is what Greg Sargent today referred to as Congressional leadership not leading, and putting the blame on the WH ...