Posted on 11/03/2010 12:57:18 PM PDT by WebFocus
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday said he was willing to make tweaks to the landmark healthcare reform law enacted earlier this year over united Republican opposition.
Reid, a veteran Democrat who survived a bitter contest in Tuesday's U.S. congressional elections, also said he was focused on extending middle-class tax cuts put in place under Republican former President George W. Bush, not extending tax cuts for the wealthy.
"If there's some tweaking we need to do with the healthcare bill, I'm ready for some tweaking," Reid said in an interview on CNN, after Republicans captured the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday's midterm elections.
"But I'm not going to in any way denigrate the great work we did as a country in saving Americans from bankruptcy because of the insurance industry bankrupting them," he added.
Republicans strengthened their ranks in the Senate, but Democrats kept a majority in that chamber.
Republicans were unified against the healthcare overhaul, which was one of President Barack Obama's top domestic policy initiatives, and House Republicans are calling for its repeal.
"I wish the Republicans had worked with us when we did the healthcare bill," Reid said.
Congress also faces tough decisions on the Bush-era tax cuts, which will expire on January 1 if Congress fails to take action.
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Tweak? Someone needs to tweak his nose...
Kill it. This is all a trap, and unless the GOP stays firm, we’ll be back to where we were in 2008: loser wannabe Dems.
Tweak it Harry? I thought you said there was nothing wrong with it and that it was what the people wanted?
We have to stop thinking of them falling for it they know damn well what they are doing the more accurate term is” not to sell us out” if they do they will be defeated....
There couldn’t be a better face for the Democrat party than this turd.
In the immortal words of a certain fishy admiral, "It's a trap!"
Scrap it completely.
Reia LIES, the only thing to remember.
Right. If the GOP starts compromising on day one, these last 730 days will be all for naught.
Ya think Dingy wants to be leader of the Death Panels so he can personally decide who lives and who dies? What better way to feel powerful. Kind of like Mengele.
All the time
About everything.
He's a leftist. It's what they do.
Sharks eat.
Skunks stink.
Leftists lie.
Scumbag POS
Tweak, Harry? Like you did w/your election?
REPEAL Zer0CARE Investigate Voter Fraud.
Show some respect, will ya?
You are talking about the man that saved the world from an economic recession!
All by hisself, he did!
The only tweaking Reid wants to do is insert an ex post facto severability clasue.
The insurance industry? How about looking in the mirror, Harry! Congress is bankrupting America.
The only tweaking Reid wants to do is insert an ex post facto severability clasue.
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