White House slammed after declaring ‘not enough support’ for public option

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Donnachaidh   (1000+ posts)           Wed Feb-24-10 08:30 AM
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White House slammed after declaring ‘not enough support’ for public option
   
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/white-house-not-support-pub... /

Progressive bloggers and activists are up in arms about White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' assertion Tuesday that "there isn't enough political support" to pass a public option for health care through Congress.

Asked why President Obama's health reform proposal, unveiled Monday, didn't include a public option, Gibbs said, “There are some that are supportive of this," evidently referring to the 23 US senators who have signed a letter urging the public option to be passed through the reconciliation process.

But "there isn’t enough political support in the majority to get this through,” Gibbs said.

That assertion drew harsh criticism from some corners of the progressive community. AmericaBlog's Joe Sudbay declared: "The leader of the free world can't wrangle up 50 votes in the Senate for a provision that polls much better than the president's own health care plan? Doesn't anyone at the White House know how to corral votes on the Hill?"


more at the link above --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7783147

It doesn't have popular support from the voters, and the DimRats know that. It's time you DUmmies admit it.

bvar22   (1000+ posts)             Wed Feb-24-10 02:27 PM
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38. The Republicans are irrelevant.
   
The American voters made them irrelevant in 2008 when they gave the Democrats:
*The White House
*A LARGE Majority in The House
*A Filibuster-proof majority in the Senate
*(Most Importantly) A HUGE MANDATE for "CHANGE".


"Obstructionist Republicans" only serve as a rather poor and transparent excuse for Democrats who refuse to represent their constituents.

That's almost true. Republicans serve as an excuse for the Dims that know they lose their seat if they voted for the public option.

nc4bo   (1000+ posts)           Wed Feb-24-10 08:38 AM
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6. Sometimes it makes me wonder how in the world Barack Obama became POTUS
   
I mean it seems like there's more catering to the R's in Congress than the majority of voters who believed there would be change.

There's something very wrong with that picture.

I'm still wondering why so many idiots voted for the neophyte, myself.  Still the majority of voters do not want this health care plan, nor the PO.

lonestarnot   (1000+ posts)           Wed Feb-24-10 08:36 AM
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4. ****ing betrayals! ****ing liars! I'm sick of them.

Do you know how to fly a plane?  Just askin'.

Captain Hilts   (1000+ posts)           Wed Feb-24-10 08:37 AM
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5. Public support just doesn't matter I guess! Oh well...I thought we elected a leader...nt

Once again, the public does NOT support the public option.  They do not want to pay for your lazy ass to sit at home eating Cheeto's.  Leader? 

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*(Most Importantly) A HUGE MANDATE for "CHANGE".

 

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lonestarnot   (1000+ posts)           Wed Feb-24-10 08:36 AM
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4. ****ing betrayals! ****ing liars! I'm sick of them.

DUmmy lonestarnot hates liars. You may recall that DUmmy lonestarnut was the only person who reported the trees in Galveston were festooned with dead bodies in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike a couple of years ago. It's remarkable that not one other person saw this, and not one photograph of it exists. That's a testament to the control President Bush had over the news media during his presidency.

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