Say, Barack Obama: You bent over the entire left wing of your party and pissed all over your most loyal supporters to foster a back-room deal with AHIP in which you gave them the store while they used Max Baucus to give the public the shaft. Then they looked at the atrocious corporate welfare bill that the Baucus Dogs in Finance produced (on their orders), and decided that it did not go far enough to serve their special interests, and went all Harry and Louise on you. The insurance companies are a bunch of fucking snakes and if you didn't see that stab in the back coming, you are truly retarded.
Statements like this are completely uncouth and should not be uttered in polite society.
If Politico is to be believed, the White House did not see this coming.
UPDATE: An administration official called. The White House isn't happy.
AHIP chief Karen Ignagni met with White House and Senate Finance officials last week, and she said they were "a ways away from doing an analysis," the official said. "There is a feeling among White House officials that they were misled."
If this is accurate, it calls to mind frogs, scorpions, and aquatic adventures that end badly for everyone. The reliability of Politico is probably also a subject best excluded from polite conversation, however.
UPDATE: Speaking of which:
Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, said she was surprised by the report because she met last week with Ms. Ignagni and they vowed to work together.
An uncouth person might be tempted to remind DeParle about the worth of industry promises when political negotiatons turn away from their preferred outcomes and the track record of the insurance industry with regard to health reform, perhaps suggesting a degree of naivete or "retardation" on the part of the Office of Health Reform. A polite person would repress that temptation as if their life depended on it.
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