Posted on 09/09/2009 10:01:00 AM PDT by thouworm
The last time Reublicans were invited to talk to Obama about Healthcare was in APRIL. In her press conference following a meeting with the President, Pelosi misleads the public into believing Republicans have been included in recent discussions.
Apparently, however, the only bipartisanship going on is between Democratic factions.
Speaker Pelosi. We had a very productive meeting with the President and the Vice President. The main subject was, of course, health insurance reform, but we talked about other issues that relate to the fall agenda and other issues.
In terms of health care reform, we've come together at a time where three bills have been passed out of Committees in the House, one in the Senate. Hopefully, soon, the Finance Committee will act and we have plenty to work from to pass comprehensive, affordable, accessible, universal health care. It's a pretty exciting time.
Q: Why was there no place for Republicans at the table today at this meeting?
Senate Majority Leader Reid. You know, I think that. . .
Q: The President talks to Republicans, doesn't he?
Senate Majority Leader Reid. Yes, we've had a large table on the Finance Committee and Health Committee in the Senate -- there's always a place for them [Republicans]. And so I think that today it was again a very positive meeting and that's how I feel.
Speaker Pelosi. The President was meeting with the Speaker of the House and the Democratic Leader of the Senate. He has other meetings that we are not invited to that Republicans are at. So I don't know what the point of the question is. But the point is also, in our Committees in the House, three Committees have passed the bill out. All of them have strong numbers of Republicans on those Committees. I saw to that when we did our ratios. So they had a place at the table as our bills had come through the legislative process and that's what we're engaged in now -- the legislative process.
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The Hill.com reports the following from House GOP Leader John Boehner:
The ball is in President Obama's court to reach out to Republicans if he wants a bipartisan bill on healthcare reform, House GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio) said Monday morning.
Boehner told reporters that the president has not invited House GOP leaders to the White House for meetings on healthcare reform since the end of April.
Bipartisanship is NOT CAPITULATION or exclusion.
NAZI Pelousey is a LIAR!
I can’t stand that ratface POTUS intoning that the Republicans havent offered any alternatrive ideas.
Tonight during his speech Boehner should stand up and present him with an alternative bill, live and on camera.
Republicans & Moderate Dems need to wake up. There is NO form this bill can take that would be for the good of the country. It’s another power grab for government control. We’ve seen to much of that already.
Rep. John Larson (D-CT) Town Hall, West Hartford, CT - After Action Report (9/2/09)
This so called Bill is an Act of War nothing more.
Penis pinching Pelosi’s public puss promotes projectile puking.
Some day this mentalcase bitch will be gone.
Really gone.
I can’t wait.
When isn’t she lying?
It is ok, though. The 0bamamessiah and the Corruptocrats can own this whole mess and pay the price for their treasonous behavior.
Here's what my CongressRAT John Larson told the crowd at his town hall meeeting in West Hartford, CT on 9/2/09:
...The patriots in the crowd absolutely ROARED with disapproval when Larson stated how Obama has "reached across the aisle numerous times" to Republicans (locking out the Republicans during the crafting of these HC bills is 'reaching across the aisle'?). He then went on about how Boehner and other Republicans are the Party of No. He got a roar of approval from the moonbats with: "The status quo of Just Say No hasn't been working!”. (Moonbats just adore rhymes!)...
Obama, Pelosi and the RATs: LIARS
it’s time to push back! By their silence, Republican leaders are becoming complicitous in this Neo-Marxist coup.
Very strange nervous behavior, as if she had a body hidden in her car and couldn’t wait to get out of there and go dump it.
Maybe botox has numbed her face and made her gestures so grotesque.
Pelosi would look so good in jail.
All this talk of healthcare reform and death panels reminds me of an old Jim Reeves song,,,’’He’ll have to go’’,,,
My representative (Wittman) said at his Town Hall that Republicans had offered 800 amendments to HR3200 and NONE of them had been accepted. One Obama-ite (interrupting the speaker at the microphone) said ‘so what, Bush did everything he wanted for eight years, now it’s our turn’.
There’s no way back from this, there really isn’t.
One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation's medical care before the August recess-- for a program that would not take effect until 2013!
Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid. If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years-- more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election?
If this is such an urgently needed program, why wait for years to put it into effect? And if the public is going to benefit from this, why not let them experience those benefits before the next Presidential election?
If it is not urgent that the legislation goes into effect immediately, then why don't we have time to go through the normal process of holding Congressional hearings on the pros and cons, accompanied by public discussions of its innumerable provisions? What sense does it make to "hurry up and wait" on something that is literally a matter of life and death?
If we do not believe that the President is stupid, then what do we believe? The only reasonable alternative seems to be that he wanted to get this massive government takeover of medical care passed into law before the public understood what was in it.
Moreover, he wanted to get re-elected in 2012 before the public experienced what its actual consequences would be.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/08/listening_to_a_liar
"Tripartisan" would mean something else.
There is plenty of bipartisanship. It has been very effective bipartisanship. It has been the best kind of bipartisanship. It has been BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION of Obamacare. He has single-handedly and successfully alienated moderates, independents, and many Democrats.
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