Obama surprised by political cost of health law President admits in '60 Minutes' interview to getting discouraged at times with the economy Health care law repeal tops GOP to-do list updated 11/7/2010 7:02:11 PM ET
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy. In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS' "60 Minutes," Obama said the health care system itself is huge and complicated and that changing it eluded previous presidents because it was so difficult. "I made the decision to go ahead and do it, and it proved as costly politically as we expected — probably actually a little more costly than we expected, politically," he said..............>>>>................>>>>............http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40059757/ns/politics-white_house/
The Political Cost of voting against health care for Blue Dog Democrats:
Of the 34 Democrats who voted against the health care bill in March – 24 of them were Blue Dogs – only 12 won reelection.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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