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GOP responds to Obama's Health Care Summit invite: No Thanks?
Washington Examiner ^ | 02/13/10 10:36 PM EST | By: Susan Ferrechio

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; aelshaft; axelgreasy; axelscrewamerica; axelscum; bhohealthcare; boehner; deathcare; gophealthcare; healthcaresummit; nothanks; nothealthcare; obama; obamacare
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To: onyx

FINALLY some good news.

Get ready for the media blitz....


121 posted on 02/14/2010 7:54:54 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Nachum

Wow, great news!


122 posted on 02/14/2010 7:54:58 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Yep! Things might be looking up.


123 posted on 02/14/2010 7:55:39 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for the ping!


124 posted on 02/14/2010 9:02:50 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: screaminsunshine

#$%^&*^&%$#@#$%^&*(!!


125 posted on 02/14/2010 10:07:05 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: onyx

It’s amazing how smart B. Hussein Obama has forced the American people to become; including the Pubbies in Congress.


126 posted on 02/15/2010 12:51:17 AM PST by no dems (If you think Obama is a better President than Sarah Palin would be, lay down the crack pipe.)
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To: bray

Boehner must have found his testicles. I think McConnell’s are still missing.


127 posted on 02/16/2010 1:11:07 AM PST by ZULU (Hey Obama, how DO you pronounce "corpsman"?????)
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To: onyx

“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.


128 posted on 02/23/2010 5:45:20 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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