Posted on 02/14/2010 6:32:28 AM PST by onyx
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a statement late Saturday in response to President Obama's Friday invite to a bipartisan Health Care Summit at the White House.
Boehner and other Republican leaders are complaining that the event is simply political gamesmanship and that Obama is planning to have a health care deal finalized before anyone even sits down at the meeting, which is scheduled to take place on Feb. 25.
Here's Boehner's statement:
A productive bipartisan discussion should begin with a clean sheet of paper. We now know that instead of starting the 'bipartisan' health care 'summit' on Feb. 25 with a clean sheet of paper, the president and his party intend to arrive with a new bill written behind closed doors exclusively by Democrats -- a backroom deal that will transform one-sixth of our nation's economy and affect every family and small business in America. They will then engage a largely handpicked audience in a televised 'dialogue' according to a script they have largely pre-determined. They will do this as a precursor to embarking on a legislative course that Democratic congressional aides acknowledge has also been pre-determined -- a partisan course that relies on parliamentary tricks to circumvent the will of the American people and engineer a pre-determined outcome. It doesn't sound much like bipartisanship to me.
FINALLY some good news.
Get ready for the media blitz....
Wow, great news!
Yep! Things might be looking up.
Thanks for the ping!
#$%^&*^&%$#@#$%^&*(!!
It’s amazing how smart B. Hussein Obama has forced the American people to become; including the Pubbies in Congress.
Boehner must have found his testicles. I think McConnell’s are still missing.
“I think Boehner is trying to demand that they start with a clean sheet of paper, “
But Obama is asking the GOP how they can help him fulfill his (Obama’s) SOCIALIST agenda.
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