Democrats are behind closed doors working on healthcare again right now. The republicans had about an hour to discuss this with Obama present and that's it.
According tho Bachmann she's asked repeatedly to make this public so they could see what's in the bill. http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/11/video-house-dems-cancel-committee-meetings-go-behind-closed-doors-for-obamacare/ On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:313308 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
