Thursday, August 20, 2009

Who Else From Health Care Will Be Thrown Under the Obama Bus?

Mary Laney in the Chicago Daily Observer reports:
The hit list is getting longer. Former Obama fundraiser Tony Rezco convicted. Reverend Jeremiah Wright disowned. Bill Ayers disavowed as a close ally. Illegal immigrant aunt estranged. Former friends Governor Rod Blagojevich and US Senator Roland Burris iced out.

It’s getting crowded under the Obama political bus. And now another person is taking a big fall under it – this one, Michelle Obama’s former boss in Chicago. In fact, this is the man who approved raising Michelle’s salary in Chicago – for “Community Outreach” — from $150,000 to $370,000 – a giant salary hike that was granted, curiously, just as Barack Obama was elected U.S. Senator from Illinois.

What makes this even more compelling is that this “toss under the bus” is directly tied to health care—and Michelle Obama’s dubious plan for it – in Chicago.

Dr. James Madara, CEO of the University of Chicago Medical Center is not only taking the hit for it, he’s stepping down from the top post as Chairman, and also resigning his position as Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine.
You'll want to read the whole article. Another great one by Mary Laney.