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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: Plutarch

“BEAUTIFUL!!!!!”

[doin’ mah BEST Dennis Miller impersonation] :)


41 posted on 08/18/2009 5:26:26 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: MeekOneGOP

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.


42 posted on 08/18/2009 5:26:27 PM PDT by NotSoModerate (Report dissenters to snitch@whitehouse.gov for a $4,500 tax credit)
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To: MeekOneGOP
There's good news in this, and bad. The good news is that this would signal the end of Nancy Pelosi and the Dem majority. And, their willingness to do this, would be a sign that the Dems actually recognize their own mortality.

The bad is that big, encompassing social programs don't go away once instituted - ever. There will be no un-ringing of this bell. And, it in less than a decade, all insurance would be owned, operated and administered by the Federal government, forever.

43 posted on 08/18/2009 5:26:31 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They have said this several times.

I really wonder what the actual whip count is in the Senate. If they have 11 who are against the public option, which is entirely possible, they really are screwed.


44 posted on 08/18/2009 5:26:33 PM PDT by Boiling Pots (Evil-Mongering Angry Mobster)
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To: GeronL

Heckova thing BUMP.

Tatt


45 posted on 08/18/2009 5:26:34 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." DorothyBernard)
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To: toddausauras
-- And Obama says "too damn bad". --

Legislation is purely a Congressional prerogative. They may take advice from outside, but Congress owns what Congress passes.

46 posted on 08/18/2009 5:26:42 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: truthkeeper

[My dreams have come true.]

More like a nightmare.


47 posted on 08/18/2009 5:27:46 PM PDT by KansasGirl ( Obama's heroes have always been left-wing radicals.)
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To: NautiNurse

We’d gladly pay a king’s ransom to the Democrats to just up and leave Washington now.


48 posted on 08/18/2009 5:27:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: MeekOneGOP

This smells like Reconciliation is afoot.

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


49 posted on 08/18/2009 5:28:23 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: MeekOneGOP
They're trying every trick in the book. Fight them at every turn. These communist b**turds may or may not do this, but if they do, they will be put out of office one way or another. No amount of fraudulent ACORN votes will be able to undo the will of the people.

Stay on their butts, people. They are a tricky lot, but we've got 'em cornered. They're rattling tin-foil sabres now.

50 posted on 08/18/2009 5:28:28 PM PDT by meyer (Do not go gentle into that good night - Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: Cboldt

Obama is a gatekeeper. Congress can push legislation past the President, but it’s harder.


51 posted on 08/18/2009 5:28:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: glock rocks
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"Can someone get this crap off my shoulder?"

52 posted on 08/18/2009 5:28:50 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: MeekOneGOP

Schumer’s busy sticking pins in his Ted Kennedy voodoo doll because he knows that the exploding er..uh brain tumah will be enough to push this healthcare pile of crap across the finish line.


53 posted on 08/18/2009 5:29:03 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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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. --

Immigration amnesty isn't just about votes. Both parties have a vested interest in growing population in order to obtain tax revenue in order to make entitlement payments.

The GOP is at least as pro-amnesty as the DEM party.

54 posted on 08/18/2009 5:29:17 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: kabar

Yep!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2319103/posts?page=29#29

That is what Drudge is sayin’ too, see my post there...

- - - - -

2010 Elections! ... here we COME !!


55 posted on 08/18/2009 5:29:27 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Cool - it is theirs to own. Remember this in 2010 and 2012.


56 posted on 08/18/2009 5:29:32 PM PDT by GOPRaleigh (It's gonna be a loooonnnggg 4 years...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He’s the joker...


57 posted on 08/18/2009 5:29:47 PM PDT by Third Person (0bama is a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Isn’t that what they have already been doing? Fail to see how this is new.


58 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:10 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Give me one example of an entitlement program that has been “virtually amended out of existence”. Just one example.

Take your time.


59 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:14 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: MeekOneGOP

So the Borg... uh, I mean the Democrats are effectively telling everyone that Resistance Is Futile. These arrogant bastards have to be stopped and I don’t care how.


60 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:26 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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