Expect Radical Changes Over the Next Two Weeks

August 21, 2009 (LPAC)-- In a Wednesday conference call with Senators Reid and Baucus, Obama realized that a "bipartisan" healthcare bill is not in the cards, while it also became clear that the votes are lacking to pass a Democrat-only bill. Obama was reportedly so upset that he got off the call before it ended. Thereafter, desperate advisors Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod began bruiting about crazy schemes, some of which have been leaked to press. One would call for splitting the bill into two parts, one to be passed in "reconciliation," requiring only 51 Senate votes, while the second would require the 60 votes needed to override a filibuster. In another wild ploy they are discussing, Reid would line up every single Senate Democrat to override a filibuster with 60 votes, while agreeing to allow those Democrats against the bill to vote "no" in a subsequent vote on the bill itself,— likely resulting in its defeat!

Even this scheme would require ailing Senators Kennedy and Byrd to appear on the Senate floor to cast votes. In a related move, on instructions from the White House, Kennedy has written to Massachusetts Governor Patrick and the state legislature, asking them to change Massachusetts law to allow immediate appointment of a new Senator to fill a vacancy, rather then waiting for a special election.

There is also a panicked effort to mobilize the Obama electoral machine for healthcare reform, but it is reliably reported that they don't want to be mobilized.

Lyndon LaRouche responded that there are "just two weeks to go before September comes." And between now and then, there are going to be very radical changes in everyone's agenda, changes which he is writing about right now. All this will very soon be passed.

"None of this will work," he continued. "The coming two weeks are going to decide all kinds of things, and this is not going to work. The full effect of what is going on as a mass strike out there, has not yet been registered."

Congress and the administration are in terror of whatever it is, but they don't know what it is. "You have to forgive these guys," LaRouche said. After all, they're stupid. They wouldn't be elected to Congress if they weren't stupid. You wouldn't trust anybody with a brain in there."

He also forecast that, "you're going to get Howard Dean back into this thing. Since they don't want me in the picture if they can avoid it, they will bring Howard Dean in for the diversionary effect."

The Rachel Brown versus Barney Frank confrontation has gotten massive coverage in the U.S. Every network has covered it, some reporting that Rachel was representing LaRouche, others covering it up. The coverage reminded LaRouche of the Paris press coverage of Napoleon's escape from Elba. He lands on the mainland: "The ogre is free." Then, finally, "the hero enters Paris."

Note that an NBC poll found that 45% of Americans now agree that Obama's plan will have the government deciding when to stop healthcare for the elderly.

Heavily-attended Congressional town hall meetings will continue right up to LaRouche's Sept. 8 webcast when Congress returns. Senators and Congressmen are continuing to schedule new ones, and some who cancelled meetings earlier are rescheduling them under constituency pressure.

Meanwhile, Wall Street and London are stepping up their campaign for euthanasia. Pete Peterson campaigns for it in New York Magazine. Thursday's New York Times featured two-plus pages for euthanasia, on how to convince the aged or their heirs to have them go quietly with painkillers. An Obama science advisor, Dr. Christine Cassel, pushed for euthanasia at an event at the National Press Club. LaRouche said she should be described as an asshole with legs. The other parts of the anatomy have dropped away; it clings to life.

But returning to the theme of the dramatic changes to come over the next two weeks, LaRouche concluded the discussion by noting, "It can happen any time. One little slip; any banana peel that happens to be ripe and slippery gets in the way, and the whole thing can go down. It's that kind of situation; you cannot forecast any more in terms of any kind of precision, because this situation is so tricky, but it's all bad; it's all downhill.

"Bill Clinton is really way off base," he added, "but it's understandable, because that's the way he thinks. He doesn't have until November to negotiate this and that and so forth. And if he talks about negotiation, says something milder than I'm saying, he's crazy. It won't work. You've got to do it my way, or else. If he doesn't do it my way, he's got a free option to kiss his ass goodbye.

"That's the situation," LaRouche concluded. "His ego will not let him face the truth; at least, not yet. So far he's been totally unwilling to face the truth because it doesn't agree with his ideology, and his ego, that's the other thing. He does some useful things, but on this, he has not yet straightened himself out."