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NYT: DEMS PLAN TO GO IT ALONE ON HEATHCARE... DEVELOPING...(Drudge)
Drudge & New York Times ^ | August 18, 2009 | Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny

Posted on 08/18/2009 5:16:39 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP

Edited on 08/18/2009 8:43:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

NYT: DEMS PLAN TO GO IT ALONE ON HEATHCARE... DEVELOPING...

Democrats see little chance for GOP cooperation on health care

By Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny

New York Times
Posted: 08/18/2009 07:05:52 PM PDT
Updated: 08/18/2009 07:05:53 PM PDT

WASHINGTON — Given hardening Republican opposition to congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance for the minority's cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.

Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans' purposely strident tone against health care legislation during this month's congressional recess, as well as remarks by leading Republicans that current proposals were flawed beyond repair.

The White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said of Republican lawmakers, "Only a handful seem interested in the type of comprehensive reform that so many people believe is necessary to ensure the principles and the goals that the president has laid out."

The Democratic shift may not make producing a final bill much easier. The party must still reconcile the views of moderate and conservative Democrats worried about the cost and scope of the legislation with those of more progressive lawmakers determined to win a government-run insurance option to compete with private insurers..........


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; bhoheathcare; bigbodaciousgovt; deathocrats; democrats; democretins; demohealthcare; demohealthscare; obamacare; socializedmedicine
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To: MeekOneGOP

Related:

“Analysis: Liberals tired of health care compromise”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul_analysis


121 posted on 08/18/2009 5:47:05 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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To: MeekOneGOP
I think sometimes we forget how absolutely anserine the DBM/dems have become. I mean look at Pelosi basically writing an editorial to call desent/disagreement unamerican. It boggles the mind how a sitting US President has the gall to tell people in effect to stop protesting. He wants some people to sit down and shut up!

I am so angry these marxist acting like they are in some third world country with the authority to dictate what every American is going to do.

I hope America is so POed at these people they won't win again for a century!

122 posted on 08/18/2009 5:47:58 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
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To: Artemis Webb

Actually I got the year wrong. It was 1988 and it was the Medicare Catastrophic Health Care Plan. Here’s a link to a article about it written at the time of the Hillary Clinton plan: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n3_v25/ai_13563875/


123 posted on 08/18/2009 5:49:11 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: wombtotomb
-- I dunno, we did it once a couple hundred years ago... --

First and only time in all of recorded history that a nation of individuals asserted itself as superior over its government. It was a unique historical event.

124 posted on 08/18/2009 5:49:20 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

If by some miracle Obama was led to threaten a veto....


125 posted on 08/18/2009 5:50:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: OldDeckHand
-- Collins and Snow are completely unpredictable. --

I live in Maine. On this issue, they are virtual Democrats.

126 posted on 08/18/2009 5:50:32 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: nufsed

I know,I know.Just shaking my head here.


127 posted on 08/18/2009 5:50:52 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: NotSoModerate

** They’re like hippy fugitives running from the law in a
car chase. Their tires are blown, smoke is pouring from the
engine, and they’re trying to beat a locomotive barreling
down the tracks 100 ft. in front of them. **

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LOLOL!!!

You painted that picture PERFECTLY in my mind, lol!


128 posted on 08/18/2009 5:50:55 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Cboldt

Where have you been the last 44 years? All those presidents have had their legislative agenda. It’s been along long time since GW walked down to the house and just sat in and listened.


129 posted on 08/18/2009 5:50:57 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: Cboldt

What was the French Revolution?


130 posted on 08/18/2009 5:50:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: WashingtonSource

Isn’t that the one were the guy had the Seniors jumping on his car and chasing him down the road?

That protest was organized by someone who works for Pelosi now (if I am remember the details of the story right)


131 posted on 08/18/2009 5:51:10 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Plutarch
So, if they ram this through, they've got to ram Amnesty through to, so as to get those votes to save them.

No. They don't. The plan covers illegals. :(

132 posted on 08/18/2009 5:52:17 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: GOP_Lady

Remember when the media used to lecture that Americans LOVE a split government. They don’t like to have one party control everything. Of course that was before 2008.


133 posted on 08/18/2009 5:52:30 PM PDT by carmody
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To: MeekOneGOP

In 2010 they will be shown the door.


134 posted on 08/18/2009 5:53:10 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: MeekOneGOP
69,456,897

I wish it was only the imbeciles who voted for him that had to pay for this and all the rest to come.

135 posted on 08/18/2009 5:53:16 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: MeekOneGOP

Drudge DOES have a sense of humor! Good headline / pic.


136 posted on 08/18/2009 5:53:21 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: thesearethetimes...
May God give us the strength, and foresight to persevere, in our task to keep this Republic.

Amen.

137 posted on 08/18/2009 5:53:46 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: kabar
The problem is....."they" won't own it "alone".

There will be Pubbie Traitors.....

Count on it..!!

138 posted on 08/18/2009 5:54:15 PM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: bamahead

** This smells like Reconciliation is afoot.

The Left will happily burn the Constitution
to destroy this country. **

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Yep, so sad.

Mark Levin says the “Blue Dog” Democraps are
gonna be under a lot of pressure now. There
are enough of them that THEY could stop this,
if Levin is correct. And he usually is.


139 posted on 08/18/2009 5:55:07 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Cboldt

I dunno. I was up in the NJ/NY area during 9/11. NOTHING else mattered, we were of one mind.

We might be a bunch of rowdy siblings, but, when we get hit, or are uniting to beat up the bully who is picking on our siblings (this time the senior siblings we have), it is a mighty force. I am not ready to count that out yet, we just need a seperating of wheat and chaff. It is long overdue, and the threshing floor is beckoning..


140 posted on 08/18/2009 5:55:41 PM PDT by wombtotomb (Equal opportunity does NOT mean equal outcome!!)
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