Posted on 02/09/2010 5:15:21 PM PST by Kaslin
I've been trying, because I'd truly like to see health reform pass, to find something nice to say about President Obama's plans for a summit. Another summit, that is, nearly a year after the first one.
Here's best I could come up with: It can't hurt. Consider it Chicken Soup for the Legislative Soul.
When the president used his Super Bowl Sunday interview with CBS News' Katie Couric to launch this Hail Mary summit pass, he explained that "what I want to do is to look at the Republican ideas that are out there. ...
"'How do you guys want to lower costs? How do you guys intend to reform the insurance market so people with pre-existing conditions, for example, can get health care? How do you want to make sure that the 30 million people who don't have health insurance can get it?'
" ... And if we can go step by step through a series of these issues, and arrive at some agreements, then procedurally, there's no reason why we can't do it a lot faster than the process took last year."
Sure, like in the movie "Dave," where the faux president and his accountant buddy order some chow, roll up their sleeves and straighten out the budget books. Except this time, in half a day at Blair House with the opposition party pulling up a chair. On live television.
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