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GOP responds to Obama's Health Care Summit invite: No Thanks?
Washington Examiner ^ | 02/13/10 10:36 PM EST | By: Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 02/14/2010 6:32:28 AM PST by onyx

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a statement late Saturday in response to President Obama's Friday invite to a bipartisan Health Care Summit at the White House.

Boehner and other Republican leaders are complaining that the event is simply political gamesmanship and that Obama is planning to have a health care deal finalized before anyone even sits down at the meeting, which is scheduled to take place on Feb. 25.

Here's Boehner's statement:

A productive bipartisan discussion should begin with a clean sheet of paper. We now know that instead of starting the 'bipartisan' health care 'summit' on Feb. 25 with a clean sheet of paper, the president and his party intend to arrive with a new bill written behind closed doors exclusively by Democrats -- a backroom deal that will transform one-sixth of our nation's economy and affect every family and small business in America. They will then engage a largely handpicked audience in a televised 'dialogue' according to a script they have largely pre-determined. They will do this as a precursor to embarking on a legislative course that Democratic congressional aides acknowledge has also been pre-determined -- a partisan course that relies on parliamentary tricks to circumvent the will of the American people and engineer a pre-determined outcome. It doesn't sound much like bipartisanship to me.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; aelshaft; axelgreasy; axelscrewamerica; axelscum; bhohealthcare; boehner; deathcare; gophealthcare; healthcaresummit; nothanks; nothealthcare; obama; obamacare
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Just say NO, and forget the "thanks."
1 posted on 02/14/2010 6:32:28 AM PST by onyx
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To: onyx

Is this from the GOP? They’re actually standing up to this thug, good fo Boehner and the boys!

Pray for America’s Freedom


2 posted on 02/14/2010 6:34:54 AM PST by bray (Throw All the Bums Out, starting with McCain)
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To: onyx

About time the GOP grew a pair!


3 posted on 02/14/2010 6:35:58 AM PST by lcurto681 (May God have mercy on this country)
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To: onyx
OMG!

The republicans have a backbone!!!!

4 posted on 02/14/2010 6:37:11 AM PST by TYVets (Let's Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
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To: onyx
Mouse-trap Humor Pictures, Images and Photos

It's another trap, will the Pubs fall for it?

5 posted on 02/14/2010 6:37:21 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: onyx

Looks like Boehner was listening to Rush last week.


6 posted on 02/14/2010 6:38:17 AM PST by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: onyx

Way to go Boehner. And so much for the idea that there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.


7 posted on 02/14/2010 6:38:59 AM PST by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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To: onyx

Great stuff...thanks for posting, always liked Boehner! Betcha the RINOs still show up to help with the conservative bashing theme (like LeMieux, Pelosi’s ‘bipartisan’ useful Haiti tool)


8 posted on 02/14/2010 6:41:05 AM PST by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: onyx

Does this mean they definitely aren’t going?


9 posted on 02/14/2010 6:42:52 AM PST by tirednvirginia
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To: bray

Thank goodness for Congressional aides, to explain astroturfing to the feckless Pubbies. Some bright young aide has probably studies Axelgreasy’s play book and is now whispering in a few ears.


10 posted on 02/14/2010 6:43:28 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: onyx

The GOP has a clue what America wants. By lopsided margins it’s anathema to construct this socialist beast. Dickering over a scale here and a claw there is going to do no good.


11 posted on 02/14/2010 6:45:50 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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Come on, you perpetual "boo-birds" and whine about how this really doesn't mean anything and that the Republicans are going to fail, anyway!

A whole bunch of posts and not a single whine, yet!

Good for the Republicans, seeing "Ears" for what he is and shoving it back in his face!

12 posted on 02/14/2010 6:45:52 AM PST by Redleg Duke
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To: onyx

Kudos to the pubbies current backbone.

Credit where credit is due BUMP!


13 posted on 02/14/2010 6:46:50 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. (Hi Mom.))
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To: tirednvirginia
Does this mean they definitely aren’t going?

I don't think it means that, do you?

I think Boehner is trying to demand that they start with a clean sheet of paper, whereas Obama is trying to pretend that the election in Massachusetts never happened.

14 posted on 02/14/2010 6:47:55 AM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: onyx; All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448754/posts


15 posted on 02/14/2010 6:49:41 AM PST by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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To: tirednvirginia

They need to go & demand the clean slate, in person, on t.v. To not go would make it too easy for the dummies to spin & define us. They must go & define who we are & what we believe, face to face with our enemy. Well, that’s just my $.02.


16 posted on 02/14/2010 6:50:17 AM PST by PoplarBluffian
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To: paulycy

About time they can proudly be “the party of NO.” Just hope it sticks.


17 posted on 02/14/2010 6:50:30 AM PST by adc (Rush '12All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently oppos)
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To: bray; MamaDearest; RobinMasters; Candor7; null and void; GOPsterinMA; 70th Division; ...

OMG, did these guys “finally” find their spine, guts, and, of all things, their gonads?


18 posted on 02/14/2010 6:51:12 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: onyx

Krauthammer had a brillant idea. Appoint a single republican who knows more than Obama to debate him one on one(equal footing) . He suggested Paul Ryan.

“He is the Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, where he works to bring fiscal discipline and accountability to the federal government”

http://www.house.gov/ryan/

Having scores of Republicans raising hands to shout out questions doesnt look good.


19 posted on 02/14/2010 6:51:14 AM PST by sickoflibs (( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid"))
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To: onyx
A productive bipartisan discussion should begin with a clean sheet of paper. We now know that instead of starting the 'bipartisan' health care 'summit' on Feb. 25 with a clean sheet of paper, the president and his party intend to arrive with a new bill written behind closed doors exclusively by Democrats -- a backroom deal that will transform one-sixth of our nation's economy and affect every family and small business in America. They will then engage a largely handpicked audience in a televised 'dialogue' according to a script they have largely pre-determined. They will do this as a precursor to embarking on a legislative course that Democratic congressional aides acknowledge has also been pre-determined -- a partisan course that relies on parliamentary tricks to circumvent the will of the American people and engineer a pre-determined outcome. It doesn't sound much like bipartisanship to me.

What took you so long, John? This is the collective and these are the collectivists you're dealing with EVERY day. SPEND...SPEND...SPEND...OPM. Your entire time in office and NOW you might be getting a clue? Let's see how far you take this sentiment. This good statist/bad statist is getting very old. Why don't all of you resign and go back to your families...to people that may have some respect for you.

20 posted on 02/14/2010 6:51:36 AM PST by PGalt
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