The big push and its consequences
Interesting to see this line of commentary from a liberal blog.
From
ABC News' The Note:
Obama Ally: Dem Majority Is History If Health Reform Fails
A top Obama ally predicted Wednesday in an interview with ABC News that Democrats will lose their congressional majority in next year's midterm elections if they fail to put a health-care reform bill on President Obama's desk.
"I think we're talking losing control of Congress," said Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union. "[The failure of health-care reform] would totally empower Republicans to kill all change."
"It's hard to imagine the Democrats convincing the public that Republicans are to blame for health-care reform going down when the Democrats have such large majorities," he added. "After last year's promise of change, voters will start feeling buyer's remorse."
Stern, who was invited to sit with the Obama family during the president's inaugural parade, is watched closely on health-care reform not only because of the labor muscle he wields as the head of the 2-million member SEIU but also because of the effort he has made to work with business groups: in 2007, he started "Divided We Fail," a coalition which joined SEIU and AARP with the Business Roundtable and National Federation of Independent Business to promote the general principle of universal health care coverage.
Emphasis mine -- interesting that SEIU and AARP are linked. I knew that NFIB was not anything I would be interested in -- back in Seattle, I had an agent of theirs try to sign me up and when I looked online at what they advocated, it was just big business interests, not small business interests.
When a liberal media outlet gets nervous, it gives me no end of encouragement!!!
Posted by DaveH at August 20, 2009 10:01 PM