Dean: Bush would have had healthcare a long time ago

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kpete  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jan-20-10 09:26 AM
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Dean: Bush would have had healthcare a long time ago   Updated at 4:25 PM
   
Source: Raw Story

Dean: Bush would have had healthcare a long time ago

By John Byrne
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 -- 9:03 am


Dean: Bush would have had healthcare a long time ago
Howard Dean seems to be sick of Democrats' bipartisan attitude.

In sharply worded comments Tuesday night following the loss of former Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) Senate seat, the former chairman of the Democratic Party asserted that party leaders needed to bypass their quest for sixty Senate votes.

“We’ve got to be tougher," Dean quipped. "I’ve said the Democrats are not tough enough. Bush would have had the health care bill done a long time ago. He would have gone through reconciliation.”

Under reconciliation, Democrats can move to pass parts of their healthcare reform bill with a simple fifty vote majority, evading the need for a 60-vote filibuster-proof supermajority. Liberals lost their sixtieth vote with the defeat of state attorney general Martha Coakley in Massachusetts to Republican Scott Brown.

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Interesting a bumbling idiot who couldn't pronounce "nuclear" right could have done what the smartest president these 59 states have ever seen can't do.

[Carl]

This is the Dean who lost to John Kerry who lost to President Bush?

Yeah...your opinion matters.

[ReardenSteel]

Bush did do "healthcare" in 2003 and we didn't want it then either. 


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Republican "Free Market" Medicare Bill is Closet Socialism

DUmmies just can't get it. Obama is tanking because he is way to far left. Bush was always unpopular because he never had the left's support or all of the rights (except at election time) because Bush was to far left on a number of issues.