Posted on 2/20/2010, 12:16:30 AM by Free ThinkerNY
I’m reading between the lines, but you don’t have to read too closely. Greg Sargent reported a few hours ago that Reid is now openly talking about using reconciliation not only to pass O-Care but to pass a public option too. I still think it’s a bluff, but that’s a provocative bit of muscle-flexing ahead of a meeting with the GOP that’s supposedly aimed at compromise and conciliation.
Now here comes Cantor with a statement of his own responding to Reid. You tell me: Is this or is this not an implied threat?
“If the President is sincere about moving forward in a bipartisan fashion, he must take the reconciliation process – which will be used jam through legislation that a majority of Americans do not want – off the table. By using the reconciliation process, the Administration and Democrat leaders are sending a clear signal that they still refuse to listen to the American people and have no interest in bipartisanship. To be certain, by using the reconciliation process, the Administration makes clear that their promise of bipartisanship is dead.
“If the President’s intention for the health care summit is to finally show that he is ready to listen and work in a bipartisan way to produce incremental reforms that the American people support, he is off to a rocky start. The health care bills that the Obama Administration has apparently combined to form a new plan – unfortunately again behind closed doors –have not only been rejected by the American people and Republicans, but by Democrats on Capitol Hill who have spent that past year arguing amongst themselves over them. I urge President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader Reid to stop trying to subvert the will of the American people and finally start listening to them.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
BACK FROM THE DEAD: DEMS VOW TO RAHM-THROUGH HEALTHCARE!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100219/pl_nm/us_usa_healthcare1
Cantor doesn’t understand “bipartisanship” is socialist code meaning you will comply with our agenda!
I would sincerely hope so.
Wake up GOP!!! It’s a trap!!!
Do it Dems.
Dare ya.
If any of these GOP turds have a brain, they would leave Obozo all alone speaking his same old shit different day to the camera all alone!
Man would that be real political theater!
Nothing says something like being alone in the oven.
President Obama is willing to meet with this country’s worst enemies with no pre-conditions, but he won’t meet with the elected representatives of almost half the country unless they accept thousands of pages of preconditions. What’s that tell you?
The GOP should go public on this, and keep it very simple:
“The public has made it clear that they do not want health care change as represented in either the House or Senate bills. President Obama will not meet with us unless we accept them as a starting point. If President Obama wants to create a true bipartisan health care reform package we will be glad to work with him. If he insists on forcing legislation that was created solely by the Democratic party on us we have nothing more to say. But we expect that YOU will, just as you did in Massachusetts.”
If the dems shove that through they might as well also declare Martial Law!
I wouldn’t want Obama talking to empty seats with the names of the Republican leadership on them. Boehner and Cantor should have the cajones to debate Obama face-to-face, not to cut and run.
The Republicans have the stronger argument, why should they back away from a fight?
No one in the House or Senate gives a crap about helthcare for Americans in the private sector... and that includes Republicans.
If they did, they'd have beefed up FBI investigations on Medicare/Medicaid FRAUD.
If the did, they'd have passed a Tort Reform bill.
If they did, they'd have passed a bill allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines.
This whole issue is a fuster-cluck for power and greed.
/lecture & /rant
“If the President is sincere about moving forward in a bipartisan fashion,...”
“If the President is sincere about moving forward in a bipartisan fashion, he would have included republicans in preparing the latest bill , but he didn’t.
Just damn!!!!
;-/
Because there is no fight. The GOP has no power and Obozo knows it.
Please do not be stupid. Obozo does not intend to give the GOP any input in this crap, the GOP already won and now they are going to lose by playing this game.
Believe it and watch. Empty seats would be a message that we are not going to play this useless game. How sweet that would be. That would be a geuine FUBO moment!
n00b
They might have to.
For a sociopolitical philosophy which holds the doctor-patient relationship as sacrosanct (to justify and defend their sacrament of abortion), they’re pretty oblivious about how millions of would-be subjects will not consent lightly to the injection of government deep into that very relationship. Not just their opposition, but their own constituents will go apesh!t when they realize that government-run healthcare and abortion are mutually exclusive.
Interfere with my relationship with my cardiologist, and I will have good reason to consider that a life-threatening intrusion.
“I urge President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader Reid to stop trying to subvert the will of the American people and finally start listening to them.”
Regrettably, there is a good chance that it’s going to get very ugly, very fast.
From the Declaration of Independence “ ..... — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”.
IT’S MAN UP TIME GOP!
JUST FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIVES, DON’T BE CHUMPS, SUCKERS, SPINELESS, AND STUPID.
Because if you want to win you pick your battles carefully, fight on your own turf and under your own terms. You must win the battle before it begins.
In this case NONE of these elements are present and experienced warriors understand this, that is why they are accurately labeling it a trap.
The GOP leaders are fools to go under the current circumstances. Only if they can successfully reframe the debate should they go. I saw one post where they are trying to do that but we'll have to see if the pubbies get a clue and do their homework.
That's why.
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