"Republicans plan to spend the next four years cutting class, shooting spitballs and claiming the dog ate their budgets."---Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone
The Party of No is still the party of no.
Thinkprogress:
On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote in Politico that “health reform should be developed through a bipartisan process,” echoing the demands of
Republicans who have complained about President Obama’s bipartisan outreach. Yet at a meeting with Obama last month — after the President offered some concessions on health reform — Time’s Karen Tumulty reports that GOP lawmakers refused to compromise at all:
So, right there in the Cabinet Room, the President put a proposal on the table, according to two people who were present. Obama said he was willing to curb malpractice awards, a move long sought by the Republicans and certain to bring strong opposition from the trial lawyers who fund the Democratic Party.
What, he wanted to know, did the Republicans have to offer in return? Nothing, it turned out. Republicans were unprepared to make any concessions, if they had any to make.
As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, the GOP’s National Council — a recent effort to “rebrand” the party — offered no new ideas on health care at a retreat this weekend, instead attacking a “government takeover” of health care.
1 comment:
Nothing new hear just move along. Each Republican is pushing to be the leader with no direction or plan. Rush the druggie is setting back calling the shots and he just might be the Republican candidate for President. I know Sarah scared us but think Rush and that should really scare you as now he will have access to your children. If you thought Swine Flu was bad we haven't seen anything yet with the dieases Rush will release, Rush makes a pig look clean.
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