Posted on 01/06/2010 5:20:43 PM PST by Chet 99
(CBS) President Obama wants the final negotiations on health care reform - a reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the bill - put on a fast track, even if that means breaking an explicit campaign promise.
"The House and Senate plan to put together the final health care reform bill behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats," House Speaker Nanci Pelosi said today at the White House.
The White House is on board with that, too, reports CBS News political correspondent Chip Reid. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed today that "the president wants to get a bill to his desk as quickly as possible."
During the campaign, though, candidate Obama regularly promised something different - to broadcast all such negotiations on C-SPAN, putting the entire process of pounding out health care reform out in the open. (That promise applied to the now-completed processing of forging House and Senate bills, too.)
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SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE.
Wow, that’s the headline on CBS no less.
Did anyone expect him to tell the truth? This is corruption at the highest degree. This is someone who does not care about the Constitution.
Boy, there’s a shocker...
Oh,....I don't know. If ya can't see it, it must be transparent. /s
On Drudge: http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/
It worked once, this is 10 times more lies.
The really hard investigative work...to find an issue on which Obowma HAS told the truth!
Joe “You lie” Wilson was right.
yup... maybe just a few in the Lame-Stream media will start paying a little more attention to the lies and the facts than they do to White House press releases... which are clearly becoming increasingly irrelevant! The current person occupying the WH is a disgrace. (AND IT’S NOT BECAUSE OF HIS SKIN COLOR... IT’S HIS SMARMY CHARACTER AND LACK OF AMERICAN VALUES.)
The man-child, Piglosi, and Reid are in the middle of destroying the Democrat Party - this is cause for great celebration. The only hope of stopping IMHO is for Scott Brown to win the MA Senate seat and the GOP can filibuster any changes that require a vote in the Senate before this monstrosity is sent to the WH. If the GOP can take back the House in Nov 2010 they will be able to stop future funding of all the Obamacare goodies even before they are to kick in 2013.
Will wonders never cease?
CBS could’t catch a clue even if it was covered in ‘clue musk’ and landed in a field of horny clues.
Link to senators local office contact info
Many of the House members have been added in a secondary link.
do I really have to say it???
....shocked I tell you..
Why? IIRC, it doesn't take effect for another four years. Is he afraid someone might read it?
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