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February 26th, 2010 | 
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Dan Calabrese
I think it takes a Minnesota Vikings fan to explain what happened in Washington yesterday. Let me take you back to the 2005 season. The Vikings had traded superstar wide receiver Randy Moss prior to the season, partially with the thought that it was time to let the Vikings become quarterback Daunte Culpepper’s team.
The Man-Chylde.
They had used the first-round draft pick they received in the Moss trade to select another speedster receiver, Troy Williamson, and they handed the keys to the team to Culpepper so he could drive it to the Super Bowl.
Oops!
Without Moss, not to mention much of an offensive line to provide pass protection, Culpepper fell quickly from the Pro Bowl performer of 2004 to a struggling shadow of his former self in 2005. To make matters worse (except for the Vikings in the win-loss column), Culpepper’s season ended in Week 9 with a serious knee injury that required backup Brad Johnson to play the rest of the season.
Johnson played much better than Culpepper, and the Vikings actually managed to finish the season with a winning record, but it wasn’t enough to save the job of head coach Mike Tice – the lovable big galoot who was replaced by the more no-nonsense Brad Childress.
So, on we go to the off-season. With a year left on his contract, a horrible season just behind him and serious questions about his health, Culpepper makes two very interesting choices. First, he refuses Childress’s request that he conduct his injury rehabilitation in Minnesota under the watchful eye of the new coaching staff. Culpepper says, “I’m good,” and proceeds to rehab near his home in Florida. But that was just the start.
When he does finally make his way to Minnesota, it’s for the purpose of sitting down with ownership and demanding a lucrative contract extension. He was already making something on the order of $10 million a year, so hey, what better time to ask for even more than when you’re hurt and you just had the worst season of your career?
As Culpepper sat at the conference table at the Vikings’ Winter Park headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota, saying, “How ‘bout it?” team management looked at him as if he had lost his mind. Somehow the Vikings convinced the Miami Dolphins to take Culpepper off their hands, and he has never come anywhere near his one-time level of success in the years since.
Rarely has anyone seen a more egregious example of a man making demands when the capital that would have allowed him to do so was so completely lacking. Until yesterday. Until Barack Obama.
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Whereas Daunte Culpepper circa 2005 wasted a crucial year of his NFL career, Obama wasted the first year of his presidency trying to socialize America’s health care system at a time when much more crucial problems loomed, and when the public grew to increasingly hate the plan as they learned what it consisted of. His approval ratings sank, his party got obliterated in off-year elections and the prospects for the 2010 mid-terms grew more dire by the day.
Obama’s health care plan is a substantive disaster and a political nightmare. The public hates it. The Republicans are easily ripping it to shreds. Even Obama’s media apologists are having a hard time covering for him.
And yet Obama sat across the table from his Republican counterparts for seven hours in Washington yesterday, essentially paraphrasing the delusional Daunte Culpepper in saying, “How ‘bout it? You gonna get behind my plan?”
The Republicans, who clearly came to play and had their facts and arguments ready, demonstrated with ease how Obama’s plan doesn’t control costs, doesn’t reduce the deficit, doesn’t improve care . . . doesn’t do any of what he says it will do. Look, if you read this column, you know I don’t hold Capitol Hill Republicans in tremendously high regard. But yesterday they wiped the floor with the president.
So what does he do when it’s over? He stands up and announces, hey, the Republicans had their chance to get on board and support my awesome plan. If they won’t take the fabulous opportunity I’ve offered them, I’ll just have to go ahead and pass it without them.
Hey. Why not? Obama’s plan is great because Obama is great and Obama thinks it’s great. Just ask him. It’s no different from Daunte Culpepper demanding a lucrative contract extension after he had a crappy year and got hurt.
Fortunately, the Vikings recognized that granting his absurd request would mean investing huge dollars and probably getting horrible performance in return. So they told him what he could do with his chutzpah-inspired demand.
If Senate Democrats are serious about using reconciliation to bypass the filibuster, a couple dozen wavering House members will likely determine whether Congress gives Obama the similar answer he deserves – and treat ObamaCare like irreversibly wounded piece of crap it is.
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A clever if misinformed piece. Let’s look at “the public hates it”. True that a simple majority of people are opposed to the current plan, but looking behind those numbers, one will find that nearly 20% of those opposed to it are so inclined because it doesn’t include a public option…in other words, it doesn’t go far enough. And “the repulicans wiped the floor with him”??? Arguing that the bill is flawed because it has 2,000 pages is hardly factual, logical or convincing. The argument that it will result in increased premiums??? As opposed to what, today’s system of flat premiums? Hardly “facts”. The republicans had an opportunity to bring their ideas but instead, simply railed against the current plan. In business if management suggeests an strategy for improving performance, it would be career suicide to oppose it without suggesting an alternative.
I am also a Vikings fan and I remember the Daunte Culpepper years well. Not even when they had Moss did I believe for one second that Daunte was a good quarterback. All he did was throw the ball up in the air and Randy would go get it. I could quarterbacked that year and had just as good numbers as he did. The difference between Obama and Culpepper is that Obama is has a brain and knows how to use it. This is one of the worst written articles I’ve read regarding the health care summit. Not only is it factually lacking, it is written with such an arrogance that it could only be written by brainless person who’s only thoughts are those injected by right-wing radio hosts.
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Conservative arguements are getting more ridiculus by the year. And I voted for dubya twice. How long are we going to let the blood suckers who never produce anything keep taking the rest of America down? Banks and insurance companies are utilities and we’ve allowed them to be turned into profit centers. You, karki, and the Ilk I once defended need to wake the he’ll up before this country is bankrupt.
That caught me off-guard and is a bit off-topic, but right on, on both counts. It was fun watching linebackers bounce off Culpepper when he was strong.
I think that on-air TV Reality Show Obama orchestrated was a prelude to them using reconciliation to pass healthcare. I just ask one question and no one has been able to answer: Has their ever been a government program that was run efficiently? Do these idiots that want it think they are going to get any better service than the post office delivers?
Dems, I say go ahead and pass it. Because there will be such a backlash and the GOP will take over with the precedent for reconciliation already broken, the Dems will be trampled into the ground like being run over by a bulldozer.
After reading the first three responses, I’m reminded these are the same people who voted for Jesse Ventura. ‘Nuff said. Obamacare stinks, the public doesn’t want it and Dems are going to die by that sword.
Please use reconciliation. As David pointed out once it is gone it is gone. Then you know what? Entitlements will be gone. All those things taken from people to give to other people G-O-N-E.
Even the brain dead and ultimate kool aid drinkers in the donk party know this and will not use it.
…and don’t even get me started on the Donovan McNabb comparison!
Anyone here who thinks mr. obama is anything but a foolish spoiled child is a fool. PERIOD. It’s time for your nap. Have a cookie and a glass of milk. When you go out side to play remember to stay out of the street.
No I haven’t followed the Vikings for since the Joe was the Purple People Eater era.
So for the analogy to actually work better we need to look at the teammates of Zero. Axelrod, Rahm, Jarrett, Pelosi, Reid, et al.
Now what about the coaches and those who trained him on his way to the WH, We have Marshall, gramps and grandma, promiscous moonbat mother, Rezko, Wright, and some hidden in the woodpile away from prying eyes.
You must admit, his team is a LOSER. No one has to throw him under the bus, the citizens and history will do that for him.
Craig,Trevis, Jeremy: maybe you can help me out here. What is with this perpetual lefty screeching that Republicans have no plan, Republicans support big banks and insurance companies, and Obama is a genius? If Republicans have no plan, why were Republican plans listed on WhiteHouse.gov? Have you dim bulbs read Paul Ryan’s plan? Or are you too busy pining for Air America? And what’s this about Republicans giving billions to banks? Oh, that’s right, it was OBAMA!!!!!!!! And it wasn’t billions, it was HUNDREDS of billions, money that could have stayed in our economy rather than rewarding failure. And what is it about you people that prevents you from understanding that a national mandate for health insurance is a windfall for HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES? Whose idea? Obama’s…aaaagain. Finally, if Obama’s such a little genius, why is the preceding the substance of his presidency??? Bailing out failures, spending our grandkids’ money, enriching insurance companies, etc. etc. etc. Why has it been 8 months since he started blabbering about healthcare and he STILL doesn’t have a bill to sign, and just came out with his own little plan on top of the, oh, 7 or 8 OTHER Dem plans? What has he done? What???? Spend us into oblivion. That’s. It.
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Is that why Blue-freak Massachusetts voted for Scott Brown- because they thought he would demand the public option? The note of desperation sounding in Democrat bloggers is getting to be a drone. You lost the debate. All the left’s sacred cows have died and their bloated carcasses litter the highway for all to see. What are you going to tell us next- that the science on AGW is settled? Never mind that discredited fool behind the curtain.
Clever and pretty much true analogy. Who do we trade Obama to?
To Greece, Yogus, to fix their economy.
oh these dems are really losing it. man you give them every firggin thing. everything they ever wanted. everything they haver been screaing from the kiddie table for and throwing mash potoates all about the room about. and look at them. they try to sell this: we will insure 43 million (30?, 23? 15?) more people, but with no more doctors, and there will be no rationing. and we will reduce costs, but demand pre-existing conditions must be covered. we wont do tort reform, but will mandate for the first time that americans purchase a particular product. we will cut medicare by 500bil, to save it. and use that money for another entitlement; that will go broke. we’ll say it cuts the deficit, becuase we actually spent 300 bil that is related to healthcare..in another bill so it doesnt count. and on and on. i mean when you boiled it all down, from the START, it was just counter-intuitive. to a 10 year old. but there they went. barreling ahead. hey, they had gotten out of the kiddie table, they were with the grown ups now. and look at them. pathetic. the crazies, ya know, the real whack-a-doddles out on lefty lala land, they’re about done with this bunch. but there is a good reason whack-a-doodles: not many people are like you. they actually thought thru all this. unlike your leaders. regular folks, probably tied to their god and guns with antipathy for “the others”, figured it out. thats why with 60 dem votes you couldnt do anything. cause there just aint enough whack-a-doodles. now your dear leaders wont tell you this. they might even think like you. but even if they dont, they just cant tell ya the truth: what you want to do its nuts and wont work. pretty soon you can be back at the kiddie table, tossing those mash potatoes, screaming about the patriot act, while your congress passes it. ok? oh yeah an this one: dissent is the american way!! remember that one? long time ago. before there was an all-dem everything running the swamp.
Obama is more like Danica Patrick. The product of great sales and marketing but NO game. If we need a quarter back analogy, I’d say Ryan Leaf. No, maybe Jamarcus Russell. Talk about buyers remorse.
Dan we knew this all along. This guy was truly a ZERO. Nobody gets to say they were not warned. The Hopium crowd will believe whatever The Magnificent One utters. See GITMO is closed. No torture is happening. We have won in Iraq (certified by Jar Jar Biden). Economy is on track. Iran is smiling again.
Health Scare… That is the biggest piece of genius. I would have respected lefties only if they were honest. How can government mandate everybody by health insurance and not supply it for cheap? Any lefty that has an honest bone will agree that is the most outrageous thing in this scary plan. And then the “death panels”. So if I am 70 and an operation can give me 2 years, Obama would rather have me take either Blue or Red pill.
Some guys don’t know when to quit. They have to be kicked to understand that. Particularly the ideologues.
YogusBearus:
28 February 2010 at 6:35 pm
You can’t trade him. Jar Jar Biden and Pelosi are even worse choices. Unfortunate but true. You can however cut his legs in this year elections. Flip the majority. And yes, you guessed it right. Vote Republican.
BTW…. Don’t blame me. I voted for the other guy.
Hey Boo Boo:
28 February 2010 at 6:51 pm
To Greece, Yogus, to fix their economy.
Greece is not trading. Same reason why GITMO is still open. Nobody will take dangerous characters.
l think the analogy fits perfectly,,,,obama is a wrecking ball and he is bringing this country into the abys. ask yourself a question,,,am l better off since obama got elected? case closed,,,,vote Republican
In that summit it was obvious that the Democrats were talking about their fantasy bill and not the actual bill that is written.
Whenever Republicans read to them from the bill or pointed out the falsehoods hiding the true costs from the CBO and the American people. Obama called the words of the bill “Republican talking points” He had to retract his assertions several times when confronted with the real language of the CBO and his own numbers crunchers.
Democrats don’t know or care what is in this bill. And why should they. They don’t have to live with it. We will have to live with the stupidity they are trying to make law.
Thank heavens that this year at least the Republicans in congress decided they had values after all and would stand up for the American people.
Now next year when they get power they may try to screw us over too. But if the Dems will just leave the filibuster in place they can be stopped as well.
Thank Heaven for gridlock! The only thing standing between us and that horrible bill!
Listen to all the libs on here and their blind faith in Obama. I bet the White House sent out a software pkg to help flood these posts with Liberal viewpoints. Because CLEARLY Obama lost the debate on Healthcare. When the lefty “Ted Kenedys’ seat” David Gergen says the Republicans won…then you know it was a disaster for the bamster.
We scored point after point with Facts…and the Dems scored tear after tear with sob stories. The problem for Dems is Facts win out when given the light of day. Here the MSM had to show uninterupted opinions based on FACTS and didnt have a chance to paint the Republicans as negative monsters by using tiny little sound bites. That said, the Dems will still try to jam it through because for most on the left their ideology is a religion. The monkey slap who said America is only against this bill becuase it doesnt have the public option has now made himself out to be a public ignorant…thats right I’m using adhominem attacks. I could waste my time with poll after poll results to dispute your kool-aid bias. Or, I could simply state the obvious, that if America was in favor of this Health Care bill it would have already passed log ago. But with LARGE majorities in both houses, the Dems cant even agree amongst themselves, so why bother. You are a complete public moron that loves the moronic public option, and will try to tell America they dont know what they want. Because as you say “20% are against this bill due to no public option”…get a clue and grab some kool-aid while you’re at it. America is fed-up with this big spending Nanny State. Even CNN had a big poll on that FACT. But you would spill your kool-aid or spit it all over the paper if you bothered to open your eyes. oh, thats right… you cant open your eyes because you are too MYOPIC.
I’m done and so is your baseless argument.
Remember the old saying that those who cannot do, teach? Former Professor Obama is showing us that there is truth in that old saw. What a disaster.
If we have to give a football analogy for Obama as an abject failure with a 60 vote super majority, I can’t use the Minnesota Vikings (mainly cuz I don’t know their record).
I would have to go back 1979 – 1981 The San Diego Chargers, the ONLY team in the history of the NFL that could consistently score 40 points a game………………………………………….. And
LOSE!
I’m thinking more like the tony mandarich or ryan leaf of presidents…
How much more proof do people need that Obama is a joke and an utter disaster. He is so delusional that he actually believes that he is an effective leader. The 2012 presidental election cannot arrived fast enough for me.
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The GOP has no plan? Please look up Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI). He schooled Obama.
Spot on. Our rockstar president is ignoring the fundamentals of insurance plans and the constitution. How can you: 1. introduce a government subsidized plan, 2.force insurance companies to accept people who are already sick, 3. lower premiums 4. reduce payments to doctors and 5 improve the quality of healthcare? Most of these ideas are mutually exclusive. I guess since medicare is doing so well, we should expand it to the rest of the country. Give. Me. A. Break.
Craig, Rep. Paul Ryan quite simply proved all of your assertions false with his statements during that summit.
If you want to lecture someone about facts, you should get your own correct.
Interesting take on the subject. The President is anxious to get this bill passed for a simple reason – it invents another “entitlement” which the government is in charge of and, therefore, gives the party another means to coerce votes for their candidates.
The “health care reform” legislation does absolutely nothing to achieve the ends of affordable health care because it focuses solely on the insurance industry. Remember, insurance is nothing more than a conduit to get your money and give it to someone else, in this case doctors or hospitals. And, it is in fact the fault of government that insurance costs are so high. The regulations foisted on the industry have required it to build costly infrastructure state-by-state and limited the risk pool for all policy holders. Not surprisingly, the government plan will be hamstrung by none of these regulations.
If Washington really wants to reduce costs for you and me, first they need to allow insurers to compete nationally and build larger risk pools over which costs can be spread. Next, they must enact true tort reform to reduce the costs of frivolous lawsuits and cap damages. Then, they must examine the true costs – hospital and doctors’ charges.
You cannot pretend to offer analysis when the only criteria your teensy weensy inteligencia can come up with is PBHO is AA so hmmm …have to compare him with hmmm..A BLACK ATHLETE!
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