[CaptainHaplo]

The failure of the health care "reform" bill does not lay at the foot of the President.

It lays squarely at the feet of Pelosi and Reid.

Yes - the President has a "bully pulpit" - and President Obama can use it. But the ones who shepharded this monstrosity through, who ok'd the various "payments" for votes, who tried to hide the contents from the people, are the 2 leaders in Congress.

Had Obama stood up and said "This is an unacceptable bill for X,Y,Z reasons" - regardless of if they were issues on the public option, costs, how to pay for it, etc - could he have helped shape the public opinion about the bill? Yes - but only in the negative.

The only fault that President Obama is responsible for regarding this bill not getting done is telling his party that he wanted a bill on his desk to sign before the State of the Union address so that he could tout it as the "big accomplishment". Had the Leadership had the ability to backdoor this piece by piece, and not been greedy, some form of this uglyness would have been alot more solidly on its way to being law before the end of this year.

But the writing is on the wall for the President. He will be a one term president, and so they wanted to avoid the mistakes of the past few presidents of both parties - and instead "secure" Obama's legacy and have a springboard for more far left movement in the government.

Greed caused impatience - and impatience "kills" political momentum as assuredly as it kills in combat.