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Into the Valley of the Little Bighorn:
President Barack Obama is planning to host a televised meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders on health care reform.
The Feb. 25 meeting is an attempt to reach across the aisle but not a signal that the president plans to start over, as Republicans have demanded, a White House official said.
“I want to come back [after the Presidents Day congressional recess] and have a large meeting — Republicans and Democrats — to go through, systematically, all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward,” Obama said in an interview with Katie Couric during CBS’s Super Bowl pre-game show Sunday.
Obama said he wants to “look at the Republican ideas that are out there.”
“If we can go, step by step, through a series of these issues and arrive at some agreements, then, procedurally, there’s no reason why we can’t do it a lot faster the process took last year,” he said.
In a statement, the official said, “What the president will not do is let this moment slip away. He hopes to have Republican support in doing so — but he is going to move forward on health reform.”
In other words, join Obama in the televised auto de fe, but he will do what he intends regardless.
Republicans would be crazy to rise to this bait. A big photo-op for Obama with zero chance for any meaningful changes to a bill that steals liberty from American citizens. Kill the bill(s) and start over from scratch.
Do not walk into this, Republicans. Standing strong against this abomination has worked so far and the American public is grateful. (Need proof? Look to Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.)
You really do not want to follow George Armstrong Obama to the place he is leading his cavalry. This is really shaping up to be a throw the bums out election.
Bad time to join the bums.
Side note: The increasingly cartoonish Obama administration is crumbling rather quickly. Only a huge, probably pathological, ego could come up with this plan. Obama really appears to believe that the sheer awesome awesomeness of his awesome intellect will overawe every obstacle in his path.
What an awful little man with an over-sized head we have in the White House.
Via Memeorandum.
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By Peter, February 7, 2010 @ 7:55 pm
We have managed to pretty much end hunger in America with the Food Stamp Program and we did it without destroying the food industry. If solving the “health crisis” were what these clowns had in mind we could put together a Health Stamp Program in about fifteen minutes, and the only arguments would be about at what income limits the “stamps” would be free, at ten percent, at twenty, etc.
This bill could be less than five pages long and could have about a ninety percent public backing. That something like this isn’t on the table shows that this whole thing has nothing to do with health care.
By philwynk, February 8, 2010 @ 7:58 am
Plainly the President does have such an ego, but no, the plan does not come from this. It comes from a very devious, very clever public image consultant, who recognizes the public relations train wreck that the current bill represents, and hopes to resurrect its image by making Republicans look obstructionist and backwards. Given their current situation, it’s not a bad plan; it’s the only one that permits them to avoid admitting that the Republicans are correct, and starting over from scratch.
I’m certain the Republicans know they’re being invited to the Little Big Horn. I’m not certain they’ll discover what they consider an acceptable strategy to avoid it.
By ropelight, February 8, 2010 @ 8:26 am
The GOP should offer a real plan to improve healthcare including competition across state lines, portability between jobs, and tax breaks for the appropriately insured. If Obama rejects commonsense measures then the GOP should showcase Democrat obstructionism and hyprocrisy.
By Tully, February 8, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
What ropelight said.
Start over. Do it right. And screw the special interests. Tort reform!
By dorf, February 8, 2010 @ 2:15 pm
…awful little man with an over-sized head… That may be but the stuffing is kinda lean.
By B.B., February 8, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
Agree with Ropelight and Tully, furthermore, not sure the meeting is a bad idea for the GOP and may blow up in Obama’s face — depending on how public it is. If they can offer real, legitimate, palatable alternatives to the socialist camel Obama’s tryng to shoe through the eye of the needle, and he flatly rejects them and tries to keep ramrodding, it’ll really backfire on him. Say it loud, say it well, say it repeatedly, GOP: Tort Reform, Interstate Competition, Portability, Tax Breaks. Hammer him on these points.
By ropelight, February 9, 2010 @ 10:11 am
GOP leaders could offer their plan based on the points listed above, and decline to participate in a White House effort to force the Democrat healthcare takeover on a public which has already rejected it.
Offer to work with the President and Congressional Democrats if they ever get serious about healthcare, but refuse to be used as props to legitimize a fraud.