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 nations 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.
Wed 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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And McCain isn't the only one.
Nine out of ten of these S.O.B.s talk a good game in an election year.
simply put, he is a backstabbing POS that will undermine my family and really piss me off, therefore he should go to the desert and STFU...period...
when and if some sanity returns to the toilet bowl called D.C. I would appreciate a simple gutting of the the monster and deregulation of free markets...
until then, again, STFU juan...
McCain can go straight to hell with his half assed obamacare!!!!
Dear Juan:
Can you just PLEASE go away and retire somewhere??? Can you STOP stabbing us in the back for just once?
Good lord, enough already from this man...Does he just not get it, or is he seriously one of “them”?
I’m just simply flabbergasted by this guy any more...
Do you really think 0bama is going to go for a $5,000 tax credit for people to buy their own health insurance?
Do people actually know what McCain’s Health plan was (endorsedby CATO last year)?
the problem is people do not know what the plan actual was. As long as they can bash McCain they are not interested.
govzilla needs to get the hell outta the way, not keep 'fixin' things...period...
Ive come to believe that ole juan has been turned...either extorted, mind gamed while in captivity, or simple greed...doesnt matter, the end result is the same, hes workin against FReedom...
“...mind gamed while in captivity...”
You’re not alone on that one, bud...I’ve thought similarly on it.
The russians/chicoms were experts at brainwashing and Pavlovian conditioning human subjects, and there were NO limits on what they would/wouldn’t do.
Reagan had it right: Communism truly is “the Evil Empire” - still.
What kind of deal could Mccain get that would be acceptable to both us and dems? Nothing I can think of.
the best 'deal' juan or any other suit in the toilet bowl could propose is still another turd that needs flushed imo...
If McCain were president right now some watered-down RINOcare would likely be law already. And it’s likely congressional Republicans would be facing extinction.
Come on, Rabscuttle. McCain’s suggestions here are improvements. If we could get these through they’d make a big difference for America and Americans - to the positive.
I am not his fan, but JM’s right on this one.
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