SnakeDoc
Posted on 02/10/2010 6:47:53 AM PST by maggief
President Obama and congressional Dems are planning two big “rope-a-dope” plays worthy of Muhammad Ali to get Obama’s nationalization of healthcare passed.
First, there’s a strategy to pass amendments -- making the current Senate bill more palatable to liberals -- and have the president wait to sign it until the House passes the Senate bill.
Second, having scored heavily against the Republicans in his visit to the Republican retreat in Baltimore a few weeks ago, Obama is inviting Republican House and Senate leaders to the White House for a healthcare “summit” on February 25. But that meeting is being planned as another Obama-dominated television event at which Republicans will be pummeled before a national audience.
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“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Wendell Primus told health policy experts gathered at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.
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The Senate reconciliation bill trick that would “fix” the Senate-passed health care bill would then have to pass the House. If the fix trick is passed, the plan is to then pass the Senate health care bill through the House and send it all to the President’s desk for signature.
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(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
that should be Gibbs on the ground. Gibbs on the ground, Gibbs on the ground, lookin’ like a fool, Gibbs on the ground LOL
“The GOP is entirely too much into the “protocol” and “politeness” ...”
Absolutely correct!
The GOP needs to be clear and direct. The “reach across the aisle, my friend” BS is getting us no where. They are too afraid of being labeled the “party of no.”
Well, it’s we the people who are saying no, and the GOP needs to drive that point home.
Great article by Connie. I fear it’s worse than rope-a-dope. I’m thinking of Marlon Brando in “On The Waterfront”
Oh...I just noticed the article was written by CaL. Good on you, girl.
I’ve been looking for that picture for a long time. He’s got such a girlish look to him. while Michele is standing tall.
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Seems that pic has been scrubbed from google images. There used to be numerous hits using the search words “obama” and “karate.”
SnakeDoc
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