Comments on: Follow Me!

By: ropelight

ropelight — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:11:05 +0000

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.

By: B.B.

B.B. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:17:27 +0000

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: dorf

dorf — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:15:02 +0000

…awful little man with an over-sized head… That may be but the stuffing is kinda lean.

By: Tully

Tully — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:00:45 +0000

What ropelight said.

Start over. Do it right. And screw the special interests. Tort reform!

By: Plumb Bob Blog » Into the Valley of Death Rode the 600

Plumb Bob Blog » Into the Valley of Death Rode the 600 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:42:03 +0000

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By: ropelight

ropelight — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:26:40 +0000

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: philwynk

philwynk — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:58:24 +0000

Only a huge, probably pathological, ego could come up with this plan.

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: Peter

Peter — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:55:42 +0000

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.