First Republican takes credit for health care bill

[ProSense]

Chutzpah!

David Kurtz

We have our first Republican taking credit for the health care reform bill!

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), who voted against the bill, has denounced it repeatedly, and who was a critical factor in gumming up negotiations in the Senate last summer, issued a press release today touting his authorship of an obscure provision in the bill:

In 2009, he drafted legislative reforms and succeeded in persuading the Democratic majority to include several of the reforms in the new health care law.

... that he then voted against!

[Jennicut]

1. Why of course. They took credit for stimulus money in their states, why not parts of the HCR bill?

[fugop]

2. But ... but ....

I thought the poor little GOP had zero input because of the mean ol' Dems??? You mean a Republican got to CONTRIBUTE? How did this happen???? Get word to the Dems! We need an amendment!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. Retro-active Bi-partisanship....

Grassley won't be the last one, either. In six years (the time it will take for every sitting Senator to be up for re-election), you won't be able to find anybody in the Senate who was opposed to this.

[Tennessee Gal]

3. Voted against it ....................

and that little nugget is left out of the press release, of course!

[DCBob]

5. Any chance any Repub will vote yes?

One of the Maine girls maybe?

[BeyondGeography]

6. I hope Barack uses that in Iowa tomorrow

Would be sweet and appropriate, especially after all of Grassley's dipshittery these past months.

[Cha]

15. Yes, just say.."and Iowa's own Senator Grassley

has already pointed out(insert here what he contributed)..how very bi-partisian of the Bill..even though he voted against it.}(

grassley would start sputtering all over the place.

[BlueIdaho]

7. Bug - Nutty nt.

[Sheepshank]

8. I thought they were whining that they didn't get any input?

So I suppose if nothing else, it's puts to rest the argument that the Reps were blocked from participating any input or that all input was summarily discarded!

[daggahead]

9. Balls! n/t

[ProSense]

10. Once again proving that

"balls" mean nothing if you're a moron.

[HughMoran]

11. Moran

Prosense has it right GOP = Group Of Psychos

[bullwinkle428]

12. Bastard. I hope his opponent uses this as a centerpiece of

their campaign theme this fall!

[GodlessBiker]

13. Shameless!

[Cha]

14. We already know they're mouthbreathing hypocrites..

of the ugliest order..grassly doesn't want to disappoint but he needs to be held Accountable!

[karynnj]

16. This is all to the good - a MAJOR Republican talking point was that they had no say

Now, everyone knows that there is an enormous list of people who helped this bill succeed - starting with President Obama and his administration, Pelosi and the House chairs of a few relevant committees, Reid, Baucus, Dodd and Harkin in the Senate - many other Congresspeople and Senators who pushed for various good provisions - but the fact is the Republican party has yet to give the final bills even one vote.

This does suggest that Grassley now sees he wants to claim credit for some of his pieces. Maybe he should be told to tell all the Republicans leaders to stop saying they had no say.

[CakeGrrl]

17. Too bad there was only ONE Republican vote throughout the entire process

and it wasn't his. Makes it easy to out him as a hypocrite.

The lack of shame is pretty stunning.

:rofl:

[amborin]

18. It's a Republican bill; Congressman Clyburn said so today!

[tallahasseedem]

19. And they're going to keep doing it...

because they have been proven to be on the wrong side of history. Shameful.