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AnimusRex -> RE: No news is interesting news. (2/26/2010 7:15:34 PM)
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Well, the GOP didn't drool, or blurt out N***er, so they got that going for them.
The reactions were here, here, and here,
Although the funniest reaction was from Dana Milbank:
"Republicans had been hesitant to accept President Obama's invitation to participate in Thursday's White House health-care summit. Their hesitance turned out to be justified.
An equal number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers assembled around a table at Blair House, and each had a chance to speak during the seven-hour televised talkathon. But members of the opposition party may not have fully understood that they were stepping into Prof. Obama's classroom, and that they were to be treated like his undisciplined pupils.
Obama controlled the microphone and the clock, and he used both skillfully to limit the Republicans' time, to rebut their arguments and to always have the last word.
Among the first to have his knuckles rapped was Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). The 2008 Republican presidential nominee accused his former rival of "unsavory" dealmaking, of breaking his promise to put health-care negotiations on C-SPAN, of supporting a 2,400-page bill, of giving favors to lobbyists and special interests. He directed Obama to "go back to the beginning" with health-care reform.
"Let me just make this point, John," the president said when the tirade ended. "We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over." Teacher directed student to drop the "talking points" and "focus on the issues of how we actually get a bill done."
Pretty much all commenters agreed that Obama allowed the Repubs to have their say, but the takeaway is that the Dems are going to have to go it alone; there are no, and will never be any, Republican votes for any sort of health care reform, no how, no way.
Unless by "health care reform" you mean grinding up poor people to make sausage.
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