Who Hates?

Reynolds notes today:

THIS ROBERT REICH COLUMN ON THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE is supposed to make you feel bad about the “right wing hate machine,” but instead it’s a stunning admission of incompetence:

Why are these meetings brimming with so much anger? Because Republican Astroturfers have joined the same old right-wing broadcast demagogues that have been spewing hate and fear for years, to create a tempest.

But why are they getting away with it? Why aren’t progressives—indeed, why aren’t ordinary citizens—taking the meetings back?

Mainly because there’s still no healthcare plan. All we have are some initial markups from several congressional committees, which differ from one another in significant ways. The White House’s is waiting to see what emerges from the House and Senate before insisting on what it wants, maybe in conference committee.

But that’s the problem: It’s always easier to stir up fear and anger against something that’s amorphous than to stir up enthusiasm for it.

Hmm.  So it’s like this:

Obama: I’m going to turn healthcare upside down.  Not sure how.

People: I don’t think I’ll like this.

Obama: Haters!

Remember how Bush was supposed to be the idiot who went into Iraq without a plan, while Obama was supposed to be the cool methodical one? But Reich is admitting that despite all the Administration hoopla, there’s still no plan

Well, precisely.  Thing is, if there hasn’t been a plan all along, doesn’t that inject a little uncertainty as to whether or not the intentions of those pushing the non- plan are the stated ones?  Oh, wait, that only works when Republicans are in power, huh?

Look, gang, here it is; the reason that Obama as numbers are going down almost in Unison with the support for the Healthcare non-plans themselves are one in the same; the American voter doesn’t trust either one of them.  In my view, justifiably so.

The reason that I find the standard objections coming from the left on this thing to be so amusing is what I said a few days ago; the apparent objection is that they’re having the same tactics that they themselves perfected and have used for so long ago and stood the right, used against them now. Look again at some of the hate the left was tossing out, and tell me they have a leg to stand on, today.