However, amid Obama’s media tour unveiling his new $850 million presidential center, documents obtained by Zeteo and the Lever through an open records request show Obama as president scoffing at demands that he more forcefully navigate those same barriers on health care policy, when he and his party controlled the White House and large majorities in Congress.
The documents also show Obama’s staff cheering him on after he rebuffed a supporter who was disappointed by the president’s surrender on his promise to enact a public health insurance option — a proposal that conservative Democrats continue to tout today as an alternative to Medicare for All.
One could argue he learned the lesson at hand from, you know, nearly a decade of proof that bipartisanship is dead and the conservatives he tried to work with either swerving from neoconservatives to open fascists or getting forced out of office by the same.
But, of course, only you are allowed to change your mind based on evidence, it’s the god given right of the protagonist.
One could also argue he could have learned that lesson already because Republicans stonewalling everything started in the 90s with Newt Gingrich. We had already had nearly 20 years of them pulling sketchy shit while the Democrats were like “I don’t think they can do that? Oh they did that, well I guess they can do that, but we won’t do that, because DECORUM!”
No offense, but if I could tell that was a dead end to try to work with Republicans by 2008 when I was nearly 30, then the guy who is capable enough to be President probably ought to understand that, too.
When he said “we need to look forward, not backward” in regard to war crimes, I began to worry we’d have someone worse than Dubya Bush someday and shocker I was right.