Porter Goss: “even as the Democrat leaders in Congress are running from the President's health care and cranking out their own plans…”

“even as the Democrat leaders in Congress are running from the President's health care and cranking out their own plans, the White House PR Machine is in overdrive. Last week the Washington Post front page reported on health care news from the President's recent carefully orchestrated swing to Connecticut. The report had more to do with press attention than it did with health care: 65 articles, 10 local newscasts, 6 radio broadcasts and repeated network coverage, a pretty good take for a few hours of the President's time and tens of thousands of the taxpayers' dollars, and conclusive evidence that the White House spin doctors care more about press coverage than health care coverage. The White House road show is going everywhere, Colorado, Florida, and onward in a similar PR boost, but how much is too much? The White House is too busy reading its own press clips to hear what the American people are saying. They are saying that Government-run health care is bad news. It does not work, and they want something else. Let us go to work on H.R. 3080. It is good medicine, and it is medicine we can swallow.”