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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Toastedturningtidelegs on September 02, 2009, 06:31:53 AM
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-02-09 01:10 AM
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Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (will not call for a public option)
Source: Politico
Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO. Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess. And although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it himself, the officials said.
“We’re entering a new season,†senior adviser David Axelrod said in a telephone interview. “It’s time to synthesize and harmonize these strands and get this done. We’re confident that we can do that. But obviously it is a different phase. We’re going to approach it in a different way. The president is going to be very active.â€
Top officials privately concede the past six weeks have taken their toll on Obama's popularity. But the officials also see the new diminished expectations as an opportunity to prove their critics wrong by signing a health-care law, showing progress in Afghanistan, and using this month's anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers to push for a crackdown on Wall Street.
On health care, Obama’s willingness to forgo the public option is sure to anger his party’s liberal base. But some administration officials welcome a showdown with liberal lawmakers if they argue they would rather have no health care law than an incremental one. The confrontation would allow Obama to show he is willing to stare down his own party to get things done.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26672.html
God this is gonna be a banner day at The Island! :lmao: A sampling...roguevalley (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-02-09 02:28 AM
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37. he needs to come down off his ivory tower and do the right thing. It
is the definition of ****ING STUPIDITY AND INSANITY to keep doing the same damned thing and expecting different results each time. JEEZ! WE'RE GOING TO **** THIS UP!
:rotf:bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-02-09 01:19 AM
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6. If this is true we must start yelling at Obama that we want a public option now. Actually Single
Payer.
Yeah that should work! :lmao:kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-02-09 01:47 AM
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20. WARNING: 2 can play the game of **** YOU.
You'll get nothing -and like it.
Woah! :-)http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4042575#4042664
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Don't know how I missed this one! :-)
[bl968 (9 posts) Wed Sep-02-09 03:12 AM
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43. The public option is a deal breaker
No candidate for public office, Obama included, who does not support a single payer public option will receive my vote ever again. I will stop voting first.
/quote]Yeah right...We should be so lucky! :whatever: :-)
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Dems will be lucky to have 70% of their house members in favor of a socialist bill on return from recess imo.
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Within 2 days Barry will be claiming a pubic err public option will be the backbone of the bill.
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Within 2 days Barry will be claiming a pubic err public option will be the backbone of the bill.
Geez Freep! Can't we bask in the anguish of the moonbats at least for a little bit? :-)
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Geez Freep! Can't we bask in the anguish of the moonbats at least for a little bit? :-)
Ok if you insist. :-)
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I like this one . . .
kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-02-09 01:47 AM
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20. WARNING: 2 can play the game of **** YOU.
You'll get nothing -and like it.
It's obvious that this primitive is a fan of Caddyshack . . . :lmao:
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That's pretty funny. I always like the "If Obama gives up on us and doesn't do what we say, he'll be left standing alone" types over there. You can just see the panic and hatred in their faces as you read their non-sense. Always good for a laugh. The Dems know these idiots aren't going anywhere.
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