Posted on 01/24/2010 2:13:52 PM PST by rabscuttle385
In the wake of a political setback for national health care legislation, Senator John McCain, the losing candidate in the last presidential election, advised his victorious 2008 adversary on Sunday that the way to get meaningful changes passed is to “start from the beginning” by meeting with Republicans.
Mr. McCain, a Republican from Arizona, said on the CBS news program “Face the Nation” that President Obama should sit down with Republican leaders and begin adopting some of their ideas for improving the nation’s health care system such as overhauling medical malpractice lawsuits, allowing residents of one state to buy health insurance from a company in another state, and granting tax credits for people who purchase health insurance on their own.
The Democrats last week lost a Senate seat in Massachusetts that had given them the 60 votes needed to block a Republican filibuster of a health care bill that appeared on the verge of passage by both houses. Mr. McCain was asked what would Republicans do in response.
“We’d be willing to sit down and start over from the beginning with genuine negotiations,” he replied. “There are things we can agree on.”
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Of course the COM-SYMP Obama and his PR man Goebbels/Axelrod used it against him in the campaign, but they all now agree that its a GREAT IDEA!!.
I know it, and I'm angry. What I'm waiting for is someone like Goldwater to come along and gut the Federal government.
How many departments, agencies, and taxes were supposed to be "temporary?" We need to start over.
I feel like this guy:
“The Party needs a good purge”
I couldn’t agree more. Scott Brown is the model for success. RINOs be gone.
McCain’s time is over. He has to step aside and let others take the lead in moving forward private sector solutions to health reform.
Progressive (socialist) solutions are unacceptable!
Watch for Romney to jump on this too.
He has to. He is permanently tied to his version of ObamaCare in Mass.
Exactly! These were the things that I recall most everyone on Freerepublic was pushing for.
What a fickle bunch so many of the Freepers appear to be.
These are all good ideas. They are conservative ideas that will most definitely save money.
^^^
Yes, if they are done at the state level they would be great. The federal government should NOT be involved in health care at all.
Republicans should demand that ANY further discussion of healthcare issues is absolutely contingent upon Democrat support for the immediate passage of tort reform, with full transparancy and Republican participation in the process. Of course this will never happen.
As a result, the government apparatchiki have grown to obscene proportions.
You are absolutely correct, the next GOP candidate must run on a platform of eliminating the Departments of Energy, Education, and Labor for starters, with a freeze on Federal hiring.
I remind her that the "radicals" are the ones who dreamed up all this communist bull-shit.
Obama would never sit down with republicans. A racist sitting with non racists? Only in the beer garden when he has to cover his a$$.
“We can do socialism better.” — signed, John McCain, Scott Brown, Mitt Romney
“How many of us would like to give McCain a real hard nudge?”
Off a short pier?
McCain has gone out of his way to destroy the conservative movement, and thus the country. Nothing is beneath him.
“That bastard McCain is driving me nuts. RINO-Care and Amnesty for ILLEGAL immigrants?”
Among a long list of subversive things, yes.
The danger here is that there is a freefall between McCain, Snowe, and Collins.
Each wants to be the deal-maker. McCain aggressively working to pass a health care bill can bring a Snowe or Collins in to short circuit that.....
We could end up with the ObamaCare intact less a few RINO provisions added or deleted.
Daner Will, Danger.
McCain is making it a possibility that we get outmaneuvered here...and then there is the wildcard of Brown who can tricked by the conniving Dems.
Has McCain ever proposed these ideas before? These are long overdue.
Must be an election coming up in the not so distant future.
Scott Brown is the right man, at the right time, for Massachusetts.
The right man at this time for Arizona is JD Hayworth.
McCain, always ready to snatch defeat from victory.
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