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Friday, February 26, 2010

Summit

I watched a portion of yesterday's health care summit. Obama seems determined beyond the norm to get some kind of bipartisan agreement going on.

That is just not going to happen. Why does he continue to think that compromise is part of the authoritarian mindset. Its not, never has been, never will be.

Yes, use the 51 vote majority to pass reform.

McClatchy: Health summit leaves Obama, Democrats on their own
"I'd like the Republicans to do a little soul-searching and find out are there some things that you'd be willing to embrace that get to this core problem of 30 million people without health insurance," Obama said at the conclusion...


"I don't know, frankly, whether we can close that gap," he added. "If we can't, then I think we've got to go ahead and some make decisions, and then that's what elections are for."


The country "will understand the president has done everything humanly possible to work this out," said Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii. "What the president has done is put himself in a position where even his harshest critics will say he's reached out to find cooperation."

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Not sure why Obama keeps flogging the dead horse of bipartisanship so hard? Whatever, it goes nowhere and the sooner he realizes it the better. Maybe, he's doing it to divert blame for the failure of himself and the Dems. to pass anything meaningful when they have the power to so even without any input from the Gopers?

Jim Sande said...

One word - reconciliation