What does this NE wench not understand? NO MEANS NO!
U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe · United States Senate · Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-5344 · Toll Free in Maine: (800) 432-1599 · Fax: (202) 224-1946
Posted on 09/04/2009 7:12:04 AM PDT by Maelstorm
The Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan negotiating team is expected to continue talks Friday on a health care reform plan that the vice president predicted would eventually pass the Congress.
"As bleak as it looks, you know, always darkest before the dawn," Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Thursday, after a speech at the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank. "The prospects of success are high. I think they are very high."
The Finance Committee's "gang of six" -- three Republicans and three Democrats -- plans to hold its second teleconference call since the August break.
The group was given until Sept. 15 to come up with a bipartisan reform plan or pursue a Democrat-only alternative, but the prospects of reaching such an agreement within 11 days have fallen as politics has crept further into the debate.
Republican Sens. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming have been accused of walking away from the negotiations, which both of them deny. Both have blasted Democratic plans in the House and another Senate panel during the recess, enraging Democrats.
The remaining Republican, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, has proposed the "trigger" alternative, which would give insurance companies a set number of years to bring down medical costs or face the creation of a public health insurance option. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, has said any insurance competitor must be available on Day One, signaling the idea may not fly with Democrats.
The reform debate is expected to be further jolted Wednesday, when President Obama addresses a rare joint session of Congress.
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What does this NE wench not understand? NO MEANS NO!
U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe · United States Senate · Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-5344 · Toll Free in Maine: (800) 432-1599 · Fax: (202) 224-1946
Really?
I think a lot of American’s might welcome a “trigger option” here...but perhaps not QUITE what the clowns are thinking!!!
These people think they need laws just to prove they are working.
These are all “trigger words”.
Bats in the belfry comes to mind.
These WDC politburo people are so full of themselves they can’t see that America does not want rulers. They want representatives. They want something that might be good for America, for a change.
Excellent example of the IQ of the ME voter
Yeah, I got your trigger option for ya!
Trigger this!!!!
It's very often darkest right before it goes pitch black.
The government just doesn't do things well. There are a few things, like National Defense, where they are the only game in town, so we need to have government do the task. But Health care? Why should the government do that? And why does anyone think they would do it well?
"You fools in Maine who voted for me had better understand that
MY health care plan is the Senate one, and it will stay that way."
"Trigger"
The homely traitor, Snowe and her little pal Susan need to switch parties. They’re clearly aligned with the Communist-Democrat Party.
Stuff your plan and the Trigger you rode in on.
I’ll bet you’d like to have that nose filled with Krugerrands.
LOL - shades of Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey...
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