Frontline Documentary Airs Tonight: Obama's (BF) Deal

[Clio the Leo]

(for the record, the title of the show is simply, "Obama's Deal" but I had to get your attention. ;)

From behind closed doors, high-stakes victory

By Sam Allis
Globe Staff / April 13, 2010

It’s hard to remember a piece of federal legislation since the civil rights bills of the ’60s that has rocked this country as has the leviathan health care bill that President Obama signed on March 23. It’s hard to remember anything since then to match the congressional bloodletting the bill caused, or its lasting national significance. Its passage saved Obama’s presidency and recalibrated the political calculus in Washington, which had been based on its assumed defeat.

If we are dim on all that’s in the bill, we were blind to the machinations behind the scenes that led to its rise and fall and rise again. To achieve victory, Obama had to cut unsavory deals. It wasn’t pretty, but it worked. Anyone remotely interested in big-time, hardball legislative politics should watch “Obama’s Deal’’ tonight at 9 on WGBH-TV (Channel 2) to see how the president got his bill.

“Frontline’’ delivers the goods. It gives us the large themes and nasty fights that dominated Capitol Hill over the past year. We hear from a legion of smart insiders, journalists, and politicians, from every angle of the action. Veteran documentarian Mike Kirk, who wrote, directed, and coproduced this story, has done it again.

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/04/13/obamas_deal_examines_back_room_deals_behind_health_care_bill/

airs tonight .... check your local listings.....
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[flpoljunkie]

2. Thanks for the heads up, Clio.

[Phx_Dem]

3. I think I'm TIVOing this, but thanks for the reminder so I can check!