Butt, Mr. Resident President - did you even THINK to ask what the cost in $ would be to the U.S. public?

Apparently, the Bland One is searching for a friendlier venue than the Daily Show.  Shames himself by appearing on soixante minuets

Obama tells '60 Minutes' that health care overhaul cost more politically than he'd expected

By Associated Press

11:04 PM CST, November 7, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

Enquiring minds doth wish to know: just how the f@ck much extra will be the financial cost to the taxpayers?  Didja even ask, Barck-O, Mr. One & Done?

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.

Revisionist history.  It's such a political issue, that a bi-partisan concensus could never be achieved.

"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.

Has there been any decision you've made, any legislation you've supported that you did not triangulate to estimate what the political "cost" would be?  Why in the Name of Good God Almighty don't you just do something that is right for the people: for all the people?

Obama said he thought that he would find common ground with Republicans by advancing health care proposals that had been introduced by Republican administrations as well as potential presidential candidate Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts.

Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. They never intended to work with you Barck-o boy.

"I couldn't get the kind of cooperation from Republicans that I had hoped for," he said. "And that was costly, partly because it created the kind of partisanship and bickering that really turn people off."

Wrong. THAT kind of partisanship and bickering turns the Republicans on.  It's what they like best.  Stall, stall, stall the boat as it careeneth down the stream.  Warily, narrowly, airily, warily, life is one wet dream.

Obama said the danger of a second major recession is "much reduced" and a great depression is not on the horizon. Still a danger, he said, is the nation being "stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high."

Of course dumbo, it's not on the horizon: it is dragging people down in the present.  Just keep looking forward sir.  That way permits you to never look backward (where you might learn something) or inward (where you might find something).

"I do get discouraged. I mean, there are times where I thought the economy would had gotten better by now," he said. "One of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything. But you don't always have control of everything, especially an economy this big."

Not even the control to influence in some way?  Not even a little?  Poor little 'ole whippin' boy.

However, Obama sounded optimistic about the nation's economic future.

Shell oil, Halliburton, Pepsico, Humana Health Services, and a few others I can name are also optimistic about THEIR economic future.  As for the nation's economic future - frahnkly mah dear, they just don't give no damn.

"I am constantly reminded that we have been through worse times than these, and we've always come out on top," he said. "And I'm positive that the same thing is going to happen this time."

Come out on top and bombing.

Obama said his two years as president haven't changed his ideals.

Because he didn't have any when he came to office, so, what exactly did he think?

"But I think that in terms of how I operated on a day-to-day basis, when you've got a series of choices to make — I think that there are times where we said let's just get it done instead of worrying about how we're getting it done," he said. "And I think that's a problem. I'm paying a political price for that."

Sounds like a whinin' Governor George W. Bush.

The "60 Minutes" interview was taped at the White House on Thursday, before Obama left for a four-nation tour of Asia.

Typical, more usually of lame ducks (which, of course, Obama is) to go and fiddle fart around the international community rather than to stay at home and try to fix some difficult situations.  Typical, typical, typical, typical.