With each passing day, President Obama has had to fend off more disparaging and rueful remarks on the state of the healthcare reform battle. It’s as if he’s in a bad dream — one in which he sits in a lecture hall at Harvard Law, all alone, trying his best to answer the one essay question keeping him from escalating from the crowd of unkown, faceless future corporate JD’s to editor standout of Law Review with a penchant and the ambition for someday becoming the Leader of the Free World. For some reason, he thinks he knows the answer, but he cannot really convince himself of the answer’s merits — and there, he continues to sit, ruminating. (At least part of the dream for him actually came true.)

The latest barrier to his spin on the chance to pass meaningful reform legislation? The fiscally conservative Blue Dogs — the faction of the party which proudly claims Republican values as a check to balance others’ less-than-spendthrift ways in their party. What’s their beef? The proportional link to Medicaid reimbursement rates to providers represents an amount which undermines the market and the private plans with which the public option would compete. According to Obama, or at least the latest answer to his nightmarish test question before applying the eraser to the essay booklet for the millionth time, the Blue Dog Dems are simply being “scared” at the hands of “special interests”. This attitude is blocking any serious advance to effective legislation in his mind.

This episode shows that, on the House side, things are just as chaotic as they are in the Senate among the Democrats — in spite of the fact that the American public overwhelmingly supports such a public option, even with recent concessions by Obama. L.A. riot victim Rodney King’s immortal words have never lent themselves to a more worthy cuase. Democrats, are you listening? President Obama would like to awaken from his current nightmare now. | LINK

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