From Denny: What a week. The comics could not ask for better material. It was handed to them on a silver platter. And the Obama White House aides are dancing in the halls because they cannot believe their good fortune.
Don't get cocky, guys, it might not last. Besides, there are always the fast rising fuel prices to torpedo what you thought was an easy win.
Obama and the health insurance debacle
President Obama fumbled the health insurance football when it came to the issue of women's birth control, desperately trying to woo back the women's vote from his own party. So, he shoved it down the throats of the religious groups' hospitals and teaching institutions. The stormy political theater all played out without much forethought as is typical of this too political White House that prefers to campaign rather than actually doing the hard work of governing the country.
The Catholic Church's bishops were immediately the most vocal, hoping unrealistically, like a crazed frightened horse running out of a burning barn, to regain women's issues politically into their camp. Obama received a hurricane level of push back from a wide spectrum of religious groups. After the dust settled it was revealed that the push back has backfired on the churches and the Republicans.
