Healthcare Summit FAIL
February 25, 2010 Leave a Comment
via Obama: Bipartisan health deal may not be possible
After a day of debate and disagreement, President Barack Obama concluded Thursday’s unprecedented live talkfest on health care with the bleak assessment that accord between Democrats and Republicans may not be possible. He rejected Republican preferences for seeking a step-by-step solution or simply starting over.
Obama strongly suggested that Democrats will try to pass a sweeping overhaul without GOP support, by using controversial Senate budget rules that would disallow filibusters. And then, he said, this fall’s elections would write the verdict on who was right.
“We cannot have another yearlong debate about this,” Obama said at the end of a 7 1/2-hour marathon policy session.
Neither side gave much ground, sticking mostly to familiar arguments and talking points. The president urged Republicans to “do a little soul searching” but said majority Democrats would decide quickly how to move forward on a priority that has eluded leaders for half a century.
“This will take courage to do,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. said in her own closing speech. “But we will get it done.”
Even if the American public does not want it and it will further bankrupt our nation. Because that is not the point, we want our names to go down in history. We don’t really give a crap about objective and empirical analysis that shows what a giant mistake this is at this time and with our nation in economic decline.
