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Democrats consider backup plan for health care reform [Admit No Good Options]
CNN ^
| 01/17/10
| Dana Bash
Posted on 01/17/2010 7:03:32 PM PST by freespirited
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Worth reading the entire article.
To: freespirited
Only worth reading to get see one line:
“#5. Their health care overhaul dies.”
To: freespirited
To: Brookhaven
To: freespirited
I think at least a few democrats will go into full retreat on health care if Brown wins.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:09:41 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: freespirited
All this hinges on the victory of a RINO.
Go Brown go!
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:11:10 PM PST
by
NoLibZone
(Be of good cheer True Conservatives- McCain could have won! Right? /Sarc . Tis Why We Support Brown!)
To: freespirited
The Democrats actually have an excellent option.
Most people do want health care reform. Instead of using that as an excuse to push through socialized, government dictated medicine, the Democrats could go back to square one. They could assign committees to study the issue and define what and where the problems are. The committees could then come back to congress with the issues defined and solutions proposed, and congress could then implement one of the solutions.
Most likely, the solutions would be for some kind of tort reform, less mandatory coverage (does insurance *really* need to cover aroma therapy and abortion?), and more outreach to all those poor people who apparently aren’t signing up for the programs already available to them.
If the Democrats approached health care reform intelligently, they would be hailed as heroes.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:12:41 PM PST
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: freespirited
Maybe the ‘bama could have all of the Republican senators dragged from their beds and shot (resisting arrest, of course). Then, mysteriously, the capital building burns to the ground. OK, it’s not an original plan...but we know it has worked!
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:13:25 PM PST
by
Spok
(Free Range Republican)
To: cripplecreek
You’re right. But I think even if Brown loses, they’re going to be scared away from it to save their sorry behinds.
To: freespirited
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:13:42 PM PST
by
BAW
(I'm right.)
To: exDemMom
Good ideas, but hard for a party to do when it’s a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trial Lawyers!
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:14:36 PM PST
by
freespirited
(People talk about "too big to fail." Our government is too big to succeed. --Chris Chocola)
To: mplsconservative
Most democrats are awfully quiet this last week or so.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:15:12 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: exDemMom
If the Democrats approached health care reform intelligently, This was never about 'health care'.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:17:43 PM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: cripplecreek
It’s nice, isn’t it? LOL I so hope we get to hear their wailing and gnashing of teeth come Wednesday. Go, Scott, go!
To: freespirited
Waterloo——(one way or another) Sen. Demint was correct.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:21:08 PM PST
by
tflabo
To: freespirited; All
Why would reconciliation have “technical & procedural issues”? I thought the Dims could ram it through w/ only 51 votes w/ reconciliation.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:21:27 PM PST
by
ChrisInAR
(You gotta let it out, Captain!)
To: NoLibZone
Brown is a libertarian and as such is squishier on some social issues. But he definitely sees Bummercare as the fuster cluck that it is.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:22:24 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Brookhaven
Try once again to get moderate Maine Republican Olympia Snowe's vote. So moderate is now defined as anyone that is not wearing a Hammer & Sickle armband?
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:24:11 PM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
To: ChrisInAR
The existing rules would not allow a bill of this scope to be passed this way. Not to say the Rats couldn’t brazen it out and go nuclear and change the rules, but even that would have to wait for the new Congress.
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posted on
01/17/2010 7:25:56 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: freespirited
Isn't Karma a b*tch?
Here we had a law, that said elections MUST be held in Massachusetts whenever a US Senator dies in office or resigns. But then the corrupt, sleazy Democrats thought they were too clever by half, so they changed the law to allow the Governor to nominate his own loony left pal as ted Kennedy's replacement.
Now they are about to pay for their crimes and get screwed.
If they had held the elections immediately after Ted Kennedy's death, when there was still strong sympathy for Ted Kennedy, the Democrats would have won it easy.
As it turns out, they have given plenty of opportunity for a guy like Scott Brown to come from nowhere, and position himself within striking distance of clobbering Martha Cokaley.
Doncha love it, when the diabolical machinations of evil doers come back and bits them in the butt?
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