Re: 0bama's "bi-partisan" health care ploy
Lookout
wrote:
>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/GOP-responds-to-Obamas-Health-Care-Summit-invite-No-Thanks-84321682.html
>GOP responds to Obama's Health Care Summit invite: No Thanks?
>
>House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a statement late
>Saturday in response to President Obama's Friday invite to a
>bipartisan Health Care Summit at the White House.
>
>Boehner and other Republican leaders are complaining that the event is
>simply political gamesmanship and that Obama is planning to have a
>health care deal finalized before anyone even sits down at the
>meeting, which is scheduled to take place on Feb. 25.
>
>Here's Boehner's statement:
>"A productive bipartisan discussion should begin with a clean sheet of
>paper. We now know that instead of starting the 'bipartisan' health
>care 'summit' on Feb. 25 with a clean sheet of paper, the president
>and his party intend to arrive with a new bill written behind closed
>doors exclusively by Democrats -- a backroom deal that will transform
>one-sixth of our nation's economy and affect every family and small
>business in America. They will then engage a largely handpicked
>audience in a televised 'dialogue' according to a script they have
>largely pre-determined. They will do this as a precursor to embarking
>on a legislative course that Democratic congressional aides
>acknowledge has also been pre-determined -- a partisan course that
>relies on parliamentary tricks to circumvent the will of the American
>people and engineer a pre-determined outcome. It doesn't sound much
>like bipartisanship to me."
The conservatives asked for open, televised meetings. Obama is giving
them that. Now they are running away from what they asked for.
Typical shit from the shit heads
Cliff
It's the party of no in any case.
Except for their messes for which they deny responsability.
--
Cliff