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rulemylife -> RE: Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care (2/8/2010 4:13:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
This has everything to do with the severe spanking Obama got in Massachusetts of course. Prior to that he had no interest in showing bipartisanship of any kind, unless it meant that the opposition caved to his demands.
That's nonsense.
He has consistently tried to gain Republican support and this has consistently been the GOP answer:
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...
Jan 31, 2010 ... GOP signals little willingness to meet Obama, Democrats halfway.
(CNN) - Despite White House overtures for congressional Republicans to work with Democrats, GOP leaders indicated Sunday they were unwilling to accept much of what President Barack Obama and the Democrats are proposing.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell showed little willingness on CNN's "State of the Union" program to seek common ground with Democrats on top legislative priorities such as health care, a jobs bill or creating a bipartisan statutory commission to come up with plans to reduce the federal deficit.
His counterpart in the House, Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, was more blunt. "There aren't that many places where we can come together," Boehner, R-Ohio, told the NBC program "Meet the Press."
Republicans were elected to stand by their principles, and those principles are different than the "leftist proposals" offered by Obama and congressional Democrats, Boehner said.
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