NEOAVATARA

So, if you flipped through  your channels are Sunday morning, you saw Barack H. Obama, everywhere, all the time.  NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN..he was there, on each one.

On Sunday, the only place he wasn’t was on the NFL football broadcast…that, and Fox News Sunday, that is.

In any case, after watching each of these painful interviews, you can come to only one conclusion:  Mr. Obama has nothing more to say on Health Care.

There wasn’t one new angle, one new spin…nothing.  It was the same old rhetoric we have heard for months, and 120 or so Presidential speeches. You would think, after all this time, some smart person in the White House would at least come up with a nice quote or something.  Guess not.

The only surprises at all came on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.  He asked Obama, first, if the costs of Obamacare was not, in fact, a tax on the middle class.  Obama’s short answer:  It depends on what the word ‘is’ means.  Really.  This was the most legalese answer I have heard in about a decade, ala the Clinton Lewinsky denial.  Hotair has a nice analysis, or you can see the video in all of its glory below:

Of course it is a tax.  Not only is it a tax…the Baucus bill calls it a tax.  Where is the argument?  It has been estimated that if you use the Baucus plan, that tax would account for 13% of an average income middle class family’s income.  Not insignificant, by any means.  And Obama can spin it and call it anything he wants…this is still money coming out of people’s paychecks.

The second brilliant question by Stephanopoulos:  with Obama’s proposed elimination of Medicare Advantage, is he not breaking his own pledge that everyone that has coverage today can keep their coverage?  Obama does a song and dance about the negatives of Medicare Advantage…and never answers the question.  Again, the answer is of course he is breaking his pledge:  people on Medicare Advantage will NOT be able to keep their current coverage.

But as for revelations…that is it.  Nothing more of any significance whatsoever.  Trotting out Michelle Obama on Friday simply doesn’t count.  I am sorry, that is not policy progress.  That is just for show.

So, on a record setting day where Obama was on virtually every liberal news outlet available, he opted to choose nothing new that would change the debate.

This, more than anything, shows that Obama has simply lost control of the debate on health care.