For those of you who have been keeping up with the latest happening in Washington, you probably know that C-SPAN has decided they want to cash in on a promise made by President Obama. What was the promise?
“I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.”
Not only did he promise such things once, but eight times! How can one person fail to complete such an easy promise? All you have to do is set up a couple of cameras and microphones and you can have it on air so the country can see what is really going on.
With this failed promise, one could come to the conclusion that maybe President Obama and the Democrats in Congress are hiding something. What would they be hiding that the American people shouldn’t hear? Let me just say, if you are in Congress, and you need to hide something because you are afraid of what the American people will think, maybe you shouldn’t be doing what you are doing.
Not only is it Fox News, conservative radio, and conservative bloggers who are pouncing on the President with this, but even C-SPAN’s president is asking what happened. Even CBS News and CNN have talked about the failed promise to televise the debates.
America has seen Healthcare reform backfire against those who wish to pass it before. Will Healthcare reform be what brings down the Democratic Congress and the “President of Change” Barack Obama? The 2010 mid-term elections will be the election that tells us so.