UPDATED: The Day After (the Speech) September 10, 2009
Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized.Tags: Health, Law, News, Politics
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The Hill: Not a likely game changer for Obama (via Instapundit, where there’s more). The stock market seems to agree. And Karl Rove sees Dems taking a big gamble if they try to ram Obamacare down our collective throat. I’d say.
Also, what’s with Obama eliminating 17 million people or so from the ranks of the uninsured? Trying to make the whole effort seem less expensive, perhaps? Like Rep. Joe Wilson said…
Journalism is hard: NYT sees speech as a momentum-giving turning point. That’s pretty generous for a speech that amounted to a big “Screw you. We’re doing it. And we’re doing it my way.” Especially since more people watched So You Think You Can Dance instead (only on Fox).
As I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter what Obama says. What matters is what’s in the bill. That’s been the focus of the Mobs and their “bickering” all this time. And it’s worked.
We should keep doing what we’re doing, so that all those Dems sitting on the fence – the ones Karl Rove wrote about today – get it through their heads that this is a bet they don’t want to make.
Last night’s reax links are here, including the CNN post-speech poll of speech-watchers that sure is generating a lot of buzz on Memeorandum (this blog is also featured in some threads, btw). Much ado about nothing. 5% margin of error. Less than 500 people polled; and most of them were Democrats. Even TPM didn’t drink the Kool Aid.
UPDATE: That Obama could not beat Fox’s Dance is more embarassing than you might think, since Dance‘s ratings last night were down 21% from its summer debut.
MORE: The WaPo is not very satisfied with Obama’s speech. And here’s a nice summary of editorial reaction, from Politics Daily.
ANOTHER ONE: POWIP: All wee wee’d up and no place to go. Lots of links. Thanks also for linking to me here, Dan.
