Health care...

Just read this....from NPR....and Richard Wolfe, who is from MSNBC and thus is not representing the "other side"... he, the author of "The making of a President" and who has had much access to the White House...

"Wolffe writes that Obama was holding back tears when he finally signed the health care bill. He says that it helps answer an important question: why Obama stubbornly insisted on moving forward with the health care overhaul when others advised against it.

"This was clearly a decision that his own chief of staff didn't agree with, and there were other senior advisers who thought this was insane, lunatic, to risk the presidency on it," Wolffe says. "And it comes down to the memory of his mother.

The same NPR article....

"For an example of a Survivalist official in the White House, Wolffe points to former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

" 'He was 100 percent loyal ' — this is a quote — '100 percent loyal to the president but he thought half of his decisions were insane,'

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/12/131274...dentity-crisis