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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

Cool. Plan what you want, Nazi a****holes. Let’s see how you fare on the American batlefield. I suspect not too well.

The only thing I fear is running out of harpoons to spear the fat welfare whales at ACORN and SIEU.

The American leftist is a coward.


61 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:32 PM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Wow..I can’t believe the democrats are that suicidal! This is nuts! The polls don’t support such a move.

THIS IS WAR!!


62 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:38 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Artemis Webb

The current plan, HR 3200 envisions a five year phased in implementation program. If, and it is a big if, the Reps can gain control of the House, then they can throw a monkey wrench into the implementation process. Welfare reform helped roll back some of these socialist programs, but it will be difficult.


63 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:47 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Cboldt
It worked for the Romans.

...for a while...

64 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:49 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

To tilt a census, the illegales don’t even have to be amnestied, they just have to be squatting.


65 posted on 08/18/2009 5:30:51 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

T Y bump


66 posted on 08/18/2009 5:31:03 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: NautiNurse

“Sounds like they did the math calculating their spectacular retirement benefits, and decided they’ll live high on the hog regardless of how they vote and whether they lose the next election. We are screwed as a nation.”

Sadly, I think that was true the night Bambi was voted in. And YES—this is most definitely deliberate.


67 posted on 08/18/2009 5:31:05 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: MeekOneGOP
You just knew that their egos would lead to this endgame. They will pass this bill no matter what the cost— who they need to buy, blackmail, or muscle. The Obama world order is on the precipice (that didn't take long). Man your battle stations.
68 posted on 08/18/2009 5:31:26 PM PDT by Shqipo (A whiff of blowback is in the air.)
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To: kabar

That’s true. They can allocate zero dollars to it.


69 posted on 08/18/2009 5:31:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: arbooz

LOL!!


70 posted on 08/18/2009 5:31:55 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: NautiNurse
We are screwed as a nation.

To the contrary, we've got several arrows in our quiver.

71 posted on 08/18/2009 5:32:41 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: KansasGirl
Nah, I don't think it'll happen. In the end, they don't have the guts to go it alone unless they can hide behind the skirts of the usual suspects.

It's those guys that we REALLY have to worry about...

72 posted on 08/18/2009 5:32:43 PM PDT by truthkeeper ("Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?")
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To: Fiddlstix; PhilDragoo; Liz; onyx; potlatch; devolve; MEG33; Grampa Dave; Lady Jag; Smartass; ...

Whoopsi!

Think I forgot to ping y’all???

Ping! :)


73 posted on 08/18/2009 5:33:18 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: arbooz

well then... I guess that ‘bout sums up what will happen to us in a way...


74 posted on 08/18/2009 5:33:22 PM PDT by steveo (Two Thousand Ten - Never Again)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
They don't have the votes from the Blue Dogs...this is a blood-curdling, desperate scream as the bill prepares to die in agony.

I've had FOX News on all afternoon and I heard some Democrat say that there are over 100 Dems who will vote against this legislation! Unfortunately, I don't know who he was, and I don't know whose program he was on. I wasn't paying attention! lol...

75 posted on 08/18/2009 5:33:33 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Joker says take the painkiller...


76 posted on 08/18/2009 5:33:45 PM PDT by Third Person (0bama is a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

what happens if Kennedy can’t vote?? He didn’t go to his sister’s funeral.

They won’t be filibuster proof.


77 posted on 08/18/2009 5:34:09 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: truthkeeper

Well, this is a good lesson for the GOP in refraining from “reaching across the aisle.” The GOP should not touch this with a 10 meter pole. Not even Snowe Job.


78 posted on 08/18/2009 5:34:31 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

scary times.


79 posted on 08/18/2009 5:35:11 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: MeekOneGOP

was there ever a doubt?


80 posted on 08/18/2009 5:35:38 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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