John Kass of the Chicago Tribune comes to mind. Kass predicts that president Barack "Obama will star in his very own televised entertainment spectacular on Thursday — let's call it Federal Health Care Kabuki Theater ." And THEN once the cameras are turned off, Obama and group will take out the baseball bat and explain how things get done The Chicago Way.
Because he has to.
Obama needs a victory. He must claim momentum before leading nervous Democrats toward November midterm elections. Either that, or he faces irrelevancy and insurrection.It's, as Kass says, The Chicago Way.
Americans won't know exactly what's in that federal health care bill that will change our lives. We won't know how much it will cost us, or which insiders get rich, until after it's all done.
Naturally, the insiders will know. And after it becomes law, they might let the rest of us in on it.
That doesn't sound much like a man transcending the politics of the past, does it?
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