This morning on the White House blog, Pfeiffer challenged GOP leaders to say whether they’d be bringing a bill to the summit. “The Senate Republicans have yet to post any kind of plan,” Pfeiffer wrote, adding that “we continue to await word from them.”Well then. Seems to me like they've already called the score 15 minutes before the game starts, so there's no need to play.
Asked for comment, a senior Senate GOP aide emailed:
We fundamentally disagree with a comprehensive proposal to reform health care. We think a step by step approach on areas where we agree is the best path forward. We will not be posting a comprehensive alternative to commence a staring contest.Meanwhile, on the House GOP side, Eric Cantor confirmed this morning on ABC News that their bill remains the one House Republicans posted online last summer.
So, now that the Senate leadership says it sees no need bring anything, that proposal is the GOP baseline heading into the big summit.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Glad We Cleared That Up
And as bad as the White house keeps stumbling around hoping the public option will go away, the GOP won't cooperate because they just keep refusing to not look like a bunch of petty assholes.
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So House Repubs release a bill and propose amendments to the current bill and are shut down, you expect the Senate to follow? Why? I think the best approach is to make small changes.
"We think a step by step approach on areas where we agree is the best path forward."
Why not? Coming to the middle is much better than being pulled to the left.
Big words from the Anonymous.
And it's the same plan from six months ago.
Troll is trolling, anyway.
It's not trolling, its making a point. Learn the difference. Also, just because a plan is 6months old does that make it worthless now? So the clean energy bill, that's pretty old, maybe we should scrap that and start over.
Politics is give and take, currently the Dems took the stance of "We don't need you to pass things" and the Repubs are being childish and holding them to that. Now while the reason is awful and proves how immature politics actually is, it's the right decision. We do not need a public option or a single payer system. We know if given the chance Obama would take a single payer system.
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