What Emerged From Today's Rules Commitee Hearing: The Republicans voted for this same

[Mike 03]

bill we are going to pass tomorrow decades ago; they only oppose Health Care Reform in its present form because Democrats are formulating this bill, and because our amazing President Obama is supporting it.

They DO NOT have our best interest at heart; it is a total con.

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/03/20/HP/A/30893/House+Rules+Committee+Weekend+Meeting.aspx

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/03/20/HP/A/30894/House+Rules+Committee+Weekend+Meeting.aspx

Shame on the Republicans. They are disgraceful beyond belief, and they don't care about anybody but themselves and the money they are getting from the health care insurance industry.

[RainDog]

1. and some democrats are farther to the right than republicans a decade ago

what a piece of shit congress. what a piece of shit Americans who elect these assholes.

[Skittles]

3. piece of shit bill too

[Oregone]

2. Republicans have been trying to pass this for 40 years starting nationally with Nixon

Clearly they are playing politics by opposing a bill they have little to no idealogical problem with. I bet the main thing Republicans want is to lower the "bronze" plans to a 40% actuarial and make them truly useless. Aside from that, they are fine with mandating people into a private, for-profit, bloated, unethical, multi-tiered insurance system, and then handing out government subsidies for useless plans poor people wont be afford to use due to copays and deductibles.


Thats obvious. Plain as day. Transparent.


The real mystery here is why the Democrats are pushing a plan they opposed for decades

[housewolf]

4. The Dems' HCR is basically Romney's MA health reform package

Very little difference between what the Republican Romney got passed in MA and what our Dems are trying to do now. It's all so hypocritical of the Repubs to stand in such obstinate obstructionism.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Obama will prove that a Dem President can pass a Repo bill through a Dem congress even

if the Repos don't want it to pass.

We get that the Repos made a calculation that they needed to stop a bill, any bill getting passed.

Do you get it that the Dems need a bill, any bill, to get passed?

Also, the Dems are getting the lion's share of the money from the insurance industry. If you want to discuss that. What's with that, eh?


This isn't about our best interests, this is about the Obama presidency getting what it wants, proving it can deliver, and moving forward, or about being stopped in it's tracks. It's about power, and the exercise of power. It's like a friggin party vote in a parliamentary system where if it fails the government falls and new elections are held.

It's all about perceptions.

The Repos figure they are in the best place possible given all the circumstances. They knew they could fail to stop a bill. But their attempt to stop it does help them in some ways.