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Do you think that Obama's "health care summit" will be a success or a sham?

Do you think that Obama's "health care summit" will be a success or a sham?

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Chappy said:
I am proud to live in a nation where such a substantive and free-wheeling conversation can take place in public among our political leaders.

And, I am proud to have such a intelligent and well informed national leader, President Barack Obama.

God bless America!
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I'm pretty amazed that someone who presumably pays fairly close attention to politics looked at this summit and came away with the impression that anything about it was substantive.

Regardless of whether they're a democrat or republican, nobody who really understands politics believes that anything about today's meeting was designed for substance. Spend an hour reading politico or a policy blog and you'll understand what I mean.
 
donc said:
....Put something in front of them like a single payer and the approval will go up.. .....
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Still dreamin' I see!:funny
 
donc said:
..... hope and change...... :roll:
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Yep, there seems to be a fair amount of the former and bunches coming up of the latter!:clap:

Oh, and btw, they tell me I have to step up to the plate to get an animated Avatar.:confused:
 
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donc said:
As long as there going reconciliation they might as reconcile a decent plan instead of the load of s*** this bill is.:(
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"Reconciliation" was supposed to have been a way of reconciling the Senate version of the budget with the House version without having to have a super majority to overcome a filibuster. The majority party, originally the Republican Party, now the Democrats, have used it to pass legislation that the minority party would have killed with a filibuster if they could have. It was used the first time to get through welfare reform that was opposed by the minority Democrats back during the Clinton Administration.

Republicans are welcome to use that one the next time Democrats want to give credit for welfare reform to Clinton.

Reconciliation doesn't mean a warm and fuzzy way to reconcile differences between the two parties, quite the contrary, in fact.
 
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