Did the president learn anything from it? It doesn’t seem so. In some matters, he’s a very slow student.
As Bill Whittle notes, this is pretty good evidence that these con artists (as with the famous quote about the Bourbons) have both forgotten , and learned nothing. As a commenter over there says, it is sort of entertaining, in a tragic way, to once again be alive in an era in which the country is run by clowns.
Yes, I too remember the comment during Reagan’s 1980 campaign. “An actor? Why not? We’ve had a clown for four years.”
Except that, unlike the IOC, we have some insight into the final vote. That insight includes things like Obama’s party having majorities in both houses and polling that suggests public opinion on health care reform is tied. In short, Obama has every reason to believe that he can still move the needle.