Looks like President Obama, and some senate Dems, are finally getting it.
‘Sometime in September we’re going to have to make an assessment’ about whether to keep trying to negotiate with Republicans, he told MSNBC.
Obama said he ‘would prefer Republicans working with us’ but that getting his main priorities for a health care overhaul are more important. It represents a marked change from the emphasis Obama placed on bipartisanship when he launched his campaign for a health care overhaul at a White House summit in March.
The president’s shift is being echoed by Democratic senators.
‘The time is closing in,’ said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. ‘We cannot finish this year without passing major health care reform. It’s our sacred duty to the American people.’
Republicans aren’t for some form of health care reform. They are not for reform at all. So why would we work on them on something they’re not interested in?
Excellent. Freeze them out.
Somehow, I think this will only get Baucus to tell the Prez to naff off. Baucus is more interested in being Pally with his Republican buddies and Big HealthCare owners to listen to some upstart black man in the White House.
You can tell i’m pretty disgusted, no? Only bright spot was reading how the RNC was routing calls over the new DNC ad over to the DNC….adolescent behaviour that cracked me up…
Because the same strategy led to the Porkulus package that’s driving unemployment into double-digits.
Worked once…oughta work again.
Baucus already set a deadline for an agreement of Sept. 15. If he hedges any further on that, without a clearcut commitment from Snowe and Grassley, he knows he’s likely to be kicked to the curb by the rest of the caucus. And it’s going to be completely, blatantly obvious that he’s the douche who’s responsible for scuttling any chance of getting a bill passed.
There’s only one person to blame for our current economic condition, and his name is Bush.
Sweet! Now they can own their shitty healthcare plans completely. They completely own the crapsandwich of a stimulus package, the shitty economy and now government sponsored healthcare.
Go Dems Go!
Bush is still President?!? Who knew! It’s Obama’s Economy now.
Oh, and blaming Republicans isn’t going to work: they couldn’t stop it even if they wanted to. The reason Health Care Reform is failing is 110% the fault of Democratics. And Barack Obama.
The only reason the slide has stopped is due to Obama policy. But Bush dug the hole.
“The reason Health Care Reform is failing is 110% the fault of Democratics. And Barack Obama.”
How can the reform be failing when it hasn’t even been tried?
Elections have consequences. Dems need to remember that.
Bush is still President?!? Who knew! It’s Obama’s Economy now.
Guess it was just my imagination that when the economy hit the crapper in 2008 our wingnut friends here were blaming stuff that happened under Clinton’s watch.
I don’t think Republicans understand how happy we Democrats would be to be seen as entirely responsible for the economy, not have to fake this bipartisanship bullshit for a party of rabid nation-destroying diseased dogs, and if any of you think that we’re shaking in our boots about the Republican come-back in 2010 or 2012, let me assure you, our only nervousness is that too many elected Democrats will do too little rather than do enough stuff that you crazies oppose.
The only reason the slide has stopped is due to Obama policy.
Are you sure you want to write that 24 hours before the latest unemployment numbers are released? Cause that’s the type of “We’ve turned the corner” post that’ll be thrown back in your face rather quickly.
Besides, who is the one who says Obama is responsible for the current state of the economy? Why … Obama!
And Wilbur, did you accept that argument when it was made, or did you counter with something along the lines of “The Buck Stops Here”? … That’s what I thought.
But Bush dug the hole.
“Yes, the economic downturn has something to do with it. But economic downturns happen; it’s called the business cycle. The real culprit is flawed fiscal policy.”
Hey, those aren’t my words…
They completely own the crapsandwich of a stimulus package, the shitty economy and now government sponsored healthcare.
Do you mean the stimulus package that Bobby Jindal is taking credit for? The same one that John Boner is taking credit for even though he didn’t support it? That one?
The real culprit is flawed fiscal policy.”
And you hacks accuse liberals of cognitive dissonance. Unbelievable.
Not accuse, Duros.
Observe.
Big difference.