On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
Neither sad nor surprised. Republicans have a demonstrated track record of asking for concessions, getting them, then refusing to vote yes anyway. >> 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. Bitch to Mitch McConnell. I certainly bitched to Harry Reid about letting Conrad have any influence. Republicans were involved. Lie all you want. >> This is a lie. See the Gang of 6. > > Six people out of 100? You're happy with that? Nope. I thought the whole thing was a fucking farce. Hence why the Senate bill is a pile of crap. Still doesn't mean that Republicans weren't involved. >> 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 > Fact: Republicans were involved. They were involved in multiple Senate committees that had hearings on health care. They were equal members in the Gang of 6 that hammered out a final compromise bill that went to the floor. Your problem is that they weren't in charge. Elections have consequences. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:313306 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
