CBSNEWS: Obama Reneges on Transparency...

[Ubiquitous]

By Chip Reid

(CBS) President Obama wants the final negotiations on health care reform - a
reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the bill - put on a fast
track, even if that means breaking an explicit campaign promise.

"The House and Senate plan to put together the final health care reform bill
behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats," House Speaker
Nanci Pelosi said today at the White House.

The White House is on board with that, too, reports CBS News political
correspondent Chip Reid. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed today that "the
president wants to get a bill to his desk as quickly as possible."

During the campaign, though, candidate Obama regularly promised something
different - to broadcast all such negotiations on C-SPAN, putting the entire
process of pounding out health care reform out in the open. (That promise
applied to the now-completed processing of forging House and Senate bills,
too.)

Back when Republicans controlled Congress and George W. Bush was in the White
House, it was Democrats who angrily complained about secret backroom deals.

Now the roles are reversed.

"The negotiations are obviously being done in secret and the American people
really just want to know what they are trying to hide," said Rep. Tom Price,
R-Ga.

Even with no cameras and no Republicans in the room it will be a tall order
for the House and Senate to resolve their differences - especially on abortion
coverage and how to pay for health reform

Even so, top Democrats in both houses say they hope to have the final bill
ready for the president's signature in time for his State of the Union address
- less than four weeks from now.

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It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats did
to America.

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"Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote in message
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Nice, for those living in the matrix!

Try moving back to reality

[john redthorn]

Osama in the white house has made a 360 sort of. He came out today (
after deciding he was going to suffer for his lying ) and said he would
allow the health care debate to be seen on cspan. FOR 1 FUCKING HOUR
!!!! What a shit brained pile of un American trash. Lying fucking
chicago politician just like the rest of everything from shitcago.

1 hour ? The most important bill since the wwII and we get one frickin
hour ?

dont Muzzies have some kind of sin law against lying ?