Health Care as a Distraction

You ever think maybe it was the generals in charge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that got Obama interested in working on health care? When Obama came into office, he had two wars to deal with and a failing economy, so why spend all his time on a total distraction? Maybe at first Obama went to the generals and was like, “I got all these neat ideas on how to do the wars completely differently. They’re all outlined in these notebooks right here; the one with unicorn on front is about Iraq and the one with the kitties on front is about Afghanistan.”

And the generals were like, “Here is a ball, Obama; perhaps you’d like to bounce it.”

And Obama went to play with the ball, but the generals knew that wouldn’t keep him occupied for long. So then they told him, “Hey, I bet health care really needs your help right now.”

And Obama was like, “But isn’t this other stuff more important?”

And the generals were like, “No, nothing is more important than health care; you should spend all your time on that.”

And Obama was like, “I’m really smart, so I’ll go do that! I have this new notebook with ponies on the front where I’ll write down all my ideas! I’ll write the biggest bill ever!” And then he scampered off to work on health care and stayed out of the generals’ hair. So I’m not saying blame the military for this health care stuff, but it sure has worked to their benefit.

10 Comments

  1. @Marko: Very appropriate. ‘Spose anyone’s told Obama what ECOMCON is?

    President: General, I know you think I’m some kind of weak sister.
    General Scott: You’re not a weak sister, Mr. President. You’re a criminally weak sister.

  2. Obama can write the biggest bestest prettiest bill ever. And tie a bow on it, and give it to all his friends at the Capital Daycare. All the little boys and girls in Congress will yell “Yippee!” and “Yahoo!”. And then Obama will get a bucket stuck on his head and his freinds Biden and Pelosi and Reid can help him pull it off. What a busy day.

  3. “Hey, Nancy and Harry, the Generals said I could help you write the health care insurance care bill. I brought a notebook with ponies on it, see!”

    “Great, Mr. President! Why don’t you go play some golf and write your ideas down , you can show them to everyone after we pass our bills in Congress.”

    “Neato, I like golf!
    See you in February!”
    And then he scampered off to work on golf and stayed out of the Congress’ leadership’s hair until it was time to look Presidential .

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