Decade Of Retrograde

 President Obama stated his case for health care refrom today at Arcadia U. in Pennsylvania, that the GOP had almost ten years under Bush to come up with their own health care plan and did...nothing.

Speaking at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA, Obama first talked about people "in Washington who respond to every issue, every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question. Well, what does this mean for the next election?"

"They're obsessed," he said, "with the sport of politics."

You want people in Washington to spend a little less time worrying about our jobs, and a little more time worrying about your jobs.

He also stressed that "we've been talking about health care for nearly a century," and "we have failed to meet this challenge during periods of prosperity, and also during periods of decline."

"If not now when? If not us, who?" Obama asked.

The President also took the opportunity to hit Republicans: "I got all my Republican colleagues out there saying 'No, no, no, we want to focus on things like costs.' You had 10 years. What happened? What were you doing?"

Making the banks and the insurance companies and the drugmakers tons of money at taxpayer expense, of course.  Meanwhile, Republicans like Sen. John Cornyn vow to repeal health care reform when it passes.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said in a press briefing at the Ronald Reagan Republican Center today that his party will offer repeated points of order on the Senate floor challenging the legitimacy of budget reconciliation items in a package of fixes to the Senate-passed health care bill. He said his candidates in competitive races from California to Florida "should and will run on" repealing the legislation.

Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Democrats may want to pass the measure and move on, but the GOP will keep pressing at it to "make sure that health care is the No. 1 issue that the election is won or lost by" in the fall.

On the merits of the bill, the GOP will tell voters in ads and campaign mailers the health care plan's benefits kick in far down the line, while tax increases on the wealthy begin right away, Cornyn said. He detailed an NRSC tally sheet listing all the Democrats who have said health care reform would lower costs.

"Every [GOP] candidate who is running a campaign in November 2010, that will be one of the first questions and the first ads that will want to ask, 'Are your health care costs lower now by virtue of passing this health care bill?' I think the answer to that will be no, they are not," he said.

You do that, Cornyn.  Run on repealing the elimination of pre-existing conditions.  Run on giving the insurance companies the ability to continue 20%, 40%, 60% premium hikes on Americans.  Run on taking away coverage on millions of your fellow Americans.  That'll work.