Obama Gimmick: OUT COME THE WHITE JACKETS

OUT COME THE WHITE JACKETS
With polls showing that the legislation is unpopular and congressional Democrats bracing for big losses in this fall's elections, the president urged them to ignore the politics. "I do not know how this plays politically, but I know it's right," he said. "Let's get it done."

But the method Obama is advocating in the senate, called Reconciliation, or as the Democrats called in in 2005, the Nuclear Option, is controversial.

Some Democrats say the partisan rancor the process would generate could drain so much political will from the Senate that it will make it tough to complete other major legislation this year. "It would probably bring everything else to a stop," said Sen. Evan Bayh (D., Ind.).

The interesting part of this photo op with doctors in white jackets.... Is this a gimmick? Just last week at the heathcare summit, Obama claimed that when the republicans held up the democrats bill, that was a gimmick. How can the actual text of the bill be characterized as a gimmick, and yet doctors in white jackets are somehow... NOT?