The death this week of longtime Democratic Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy means one of two things for the troubled health care reform plan proposed by President Obama: Either the plan has lost one of its most powerful advocates or now its supporters have an emotional rallying point to successfully push for passage. Only time will tell.
Is it or isn’t it – in the health care reform bill proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats? The public option, that is.
The second week of August turned into one of the toughest yet for the still new Obama Administration.
Now the health care reform debate begins in earnest.
President Obama had perhaps his roughest week yet as Congress put his chief legislative initiative on hold and he tried to put an unexpected racial controversy to rest with the so-called “beer summit.”
