GOP Chickens Out When Obama Calls Them Out
In response to President Obama’s offer to meet with the GOP on the health care bill, they’ve run for the hills and are now making the ludicrous case that the entire bill should be thrown out. In other words, even though they’re in the minority and did nothing about these problems for the entire time they were in control, we should do what they want anyway.
Hopefully President Obama and the congress can move on to reconciliation to get this done. With regards to the GOP they can easily now say “See? We tried.”
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Why don’t the senate and congressional GOP give up their federal employee health benefits?
That’s what I ask them. “If you hate government health care so much, why do you collect it?” They never answer. They don’t want the rest of us to get health care because it will destroy the gop at the polls.
The GOP’s collective pants browned the moment the heard the meeting would be televised.
“Obama liiiiiieeeed! He said the discussions would be on the teevee! We can’t pass a bill that hasn’t been debated in puuuuublic!! He liiiieeeeed…Huh? He what? On television? We can’t do that! We have to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen!”
“Keep the government hands off my Medicare!”
Please. President Obama has nothing to prove to Republicans and shouldn’t even pretend they matter. What he does have to do is whip up Reid and Pelosi to finish this. Republicans don’t matter in this because their only input is “No.”
No matter what Obama does Republicans will never never never vote for anything to give him a victory.
Calls them out? He’s been flat out lying since last September claiming he’s wanted to hear GOP proposals but continually claiming they didn’t have any (this despite them actually holding up their proposals in the air during his speech before a joint session of Congress that same month). He’s continued to make that bogus claim as a way of trying to find cover for him and other Democrats to ram through whatever the hell they wanted without having the GOP involved.
Of course, it backfired on them.
So now President Obama wants to sit in front of the television cameras and pretend to be genuinely interested in GOP proposals he’s known about for months but falsely claimed did not exist.
I’m glad they didn’t give into his silly games.
This sets up the perfect frame: “See? We tried and the Party Of No once again refused to meet us half way. We’re moving forward without them.”
IOW, the GOP lobs another slow pitch over the plate, the question is will DC Dems even take a swing at it.
They don’t have any, Jay.
They have an empty binder, that’s all. Nothing that will work, anyway.
I’m glad they didn’t give into his silly games.
See, I don’t know why he doesn’t want to talk with them. So bipartisan of you, Jay.
What proposals? They have none. Nothing serious, and real. And again, they slept on the job for the entire time they ran DC.
Holy crap, Jay.
Just last week at the GOP House retreat, Republican Congressmen were pestering Obama about televising the debate.
He turns right around and says, “OK, you guys are right. Let’s get on the teevee and talk it out.” And now it’s all “silly games”?
You guys can’t take yes for an answer, can you?
Jay, we HAVE heard the GOP proposals:
1. They want to give the health insurance industry the right to provide no service what-so-ever.
2. They want to turn the health insurance industry into the credit card industry.
3. They want to hurt plaintiffs of malpractice trials without benefiting the defendant at all.
4. They want 45 thousand Americans to needlessly die every year.
I think that about covers it.
Results for November are looking better and better.
Right. No GOP ideas in the bill at all. Just all of them in print so far.
Dennis? Little Dennis? Just the other day you called me a BAD MAN for saying the GOP likely wouldn’t allow another Q and A style debate session with Obama since he wiped the floor with them when in fact IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN LIKE, TOMORROW!
God you’re pathetic.
Twas only a few months ago:
Right you are, Mr. President.
hOW’S THAT? tHE ONLY THING THAT’LL DESTROY THEM IS SIDING WITH THAT HORRIBLE hc BILL THAT HAS RATIONING OF CARE AS THE SOLUTION, ALONG WITH ANOTHER HUGE NEW FEDERAL BUREAU! tHE REST OF US DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR IT, SEE?
Rationing health care?
You mean like how the insurance companies currently decide what medications and procedures patients can or can’t receive after paying into their coffers for years?
Or whether you can continue to receive insurance if they can figure out a way to kick you off your benefits for some wholly non medical issue like an incorrectly processed application form or their interpretation of a pre-existing condition?
Are these the rations you’re so worried about?
‘Calls them out? He’s been flat out lying since last September claiming he’s wanted to hear GOP proposals but continually claiming they didn’t have any’
Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting Republicans have been offering proposals from the outset of this issue?
Or were they more content to allow ‘death panels’ and ‘socialized medicine’ to frame their position for the past year?
‘Tort reform’ and ‘scrap the bill and start over’ are not proposals.
Twas only a couple of days ago: