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OVERNIGHT HEALTH: More retiring Dems pile on Obama for healthcare focus (Frank on Commiecare™)
The Hill ^ | 4/19/12 | Sam Baker, Julian Pecquet

Posted on 04/19/2012 4:47:28 PM PDT by Libloather

OVERNIGHT HEALTH: More retiring Dems pile on Obama for healthcare focus
By Sam Baker and Julian Pecquet - 04/19/12 06:57 PM ET

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) isn’t the only retiring House Democrat who thinks the White House made a big mistake by pursuing healthcare reform. In interviews with The Hill on Thursday, several more Democrats piled on, saying Obama hurt Democrats’ electoral chances.

“I think we would all have been better off — President Obama politically, Democrats in Congress politically, and the nation would have been better off — if we had dealt first with the financial system and the other related economic issues and then come back to healthcare,” said Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.), who is retiring at the end of this Congress.

Miller voted for the healthcare bill — as did Frank and Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who reopened the inter-party dispute earlier this week.

Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.) also criticized his party’s handling of the issue, saying the bill should have been done “in digestible pieces that the American public could understand and that we could implement.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commiecare; frank; healthcare; obamacare
The RAT convention should be a real hoot. Will Bawney be invited? Will the Secret Service have to witness all that?
1 posted on 04/19/2012 4:47:39 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Democrats could have voted Obamacare down but they didn’t. Now they will pay for it. A bunch of fools.


2 posted on 04/19/2012 4:50:55 PM PDT by RC2
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To: Libloather

You can’t send a bunch of politicians from the same party behind closed doors—with assorted lawyers and lobbyists—with the task of reforming something as important and that affects as many people as does healthcare.


3 posted on 04/19/2012 4:54:36 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Libloather
@#$%^&* Democrats, they knew Obamacare was a sh!t pile but they eagerly and happily rushed it through. They can wax remorse now, but it's too late; they were willing accomplices in the destruction of America.
4 posted on 04/19/2012 4:57:46 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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They retire after exempting themselves from unconstitutional, harmful “laws” - with their platinum-plated pay and health packages for life. Criminals all...!
5 posted on 04/19/2012 5:19:05 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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Uhm....Barney, you voted for it. The time to complain and do something about it was then, the time to stand up against Obama was then. Now you just look like a pathetic whining idiot. But I guess you are used to that.


6 posted on 04/19/2012 5:29:35 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (“He’s got an enemies list that would make Richard Nixon proud.”)
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Woo Pig Sooie, slaughter time

7 posted on 04/19/2012 6:00:12 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: RC2

Even if the Democrats knew then what they know now they still would have voted for it. They really don’t care. All they care about is losing their cushy jobs and bennies.


8 posted on 04/19/2012 6:04:32 PM PDT by HarleyD
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yes but when the shtf the repubs will be in power and again, the dems and the media will say it is all be their fault.

And you know how many idiots we have in the country that believe that crap.


9 posted on 04/19/2012 11:49:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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