On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, the notion of a public option was a compromise with Republicans > who did not want to see a Single Payer system brought into the > discussion. Later the Public Option was removed due to demands from > Senators such as Olympia Snowe. And even once they removed that from > the Senate bill, Snowe still didn't vote for it.
You're sad she didn't agree to vote yes based on one item? > Perhaps you've entirely blocked out the months and months and months > of negotiations on this matter, but the Senate bill was forged in a > bipartisan fashion with the so-called Gang of 6 which included Snowe, > Enzi and Grassley from the GOP. And, quite notably, did not include a > single progressive member of the Senate on the Democrat side. Three RINO's doesn't not make it bi-partison. There were months of Democrat only meetings in Harry Reids office. > This is a lie. See the Gang of 6. Six people out of 100? You're happy with that? > They were included in negotiations. The fact that their offerings > stink to high heaven doesn't mean they weren't listened to. Sadly, > they were listened to far more than those of us who want to see actual > reform passed would like. Well if you don't want to argue with facts this is pointless ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313304 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
