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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:00 PM Original message |
Obama's Engagement On Health Care Has 'Dried Up': Dem Senator |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. surprisingly healthcare is in the top 5 of important issues - is it not? |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. What more can President Obama do, exactly? |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I really am beginning to wonder why they go to work at all? |
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iceman66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Most of them are cowards. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:39 AM Response to Reply #5 |
36. they want him to shoulder all the responsibility. sadly, there's all too many |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm a little confused on this. Does Congress expect Obama to write and pass the bill for them? |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 01:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. How did we get Social Security and Medicare? Was it 'hands off'? |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. So Obama needs to hold their hand? Is that it? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 04:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. No, I think he should leave it alone |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:24 AM Response to Reply #10 |
32. No, he needs to twist their arms, hard |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 04:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. My guess is that it was not. nt |
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DFLforever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 11:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. Well, I've heard that SS was stuffed down FDR's throat by some. |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. mmm, hmmm, that sausage gonna be good! |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. maybe it has dried up |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm very disappointed that we had to discover how corrupt Washington is |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #8 |
37. in a rational world a strong bill would pass both houses with overwhelming support from both parties |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
11. Democrats should have told Lieberman that health care legislation |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. His conduct blew the "he votes with us on non-war issues" argument away |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 05:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. And yet, here we are. Imagine that. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
16. On tuesday Obama was stumping in Nashua for health care. |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
17. Running on HCR, then turning to Congress and saying "you do it" was certainly a novel approach. |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 05:53 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Not novelty at all. It's THEIR job!!! n/t |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 06:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. It was his idea!!! Presidents come in with proposed legislation all the time. He didn't even have an |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 06:56 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. "Outline?" What president turns in an "outline" to Congress?? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 06:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Yes, and if he leaves them alone now maybe they'll drop it |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 12:03 AM Response to Reply #17 |
28. And denying he ever said he wanted a public option |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 12:57 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Don't forget Rahm's bro Zeke |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:35 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Yes, the 'deficit commission' will now accomplish the privatization of Medicare for insurance corps |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
19. I really don't understand why anyone would be shocked about |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
23. Health care reform is dead in congress. No courage to move it. nt |
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Lord Helmet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
24. That's not true. He has urged Congress to finish the job. |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
25. The greatest irony would be |
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Faryn Balyncd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
26. Has either the Senate OR the White House earned the trust that they won't sell out on a Public Plan? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:52 AM Response to Reply #26 |
40. They have not. nt |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
29. his involvement has been minimal all along.... recommended |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:52 AM Response to Reply #29 |
39. +1 nt |
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EmeraldCityGrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
30. Stalling tactics. Maybe if Brown, Lincoln et al. stall |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
33. The point of the Senate bill was always to bail out the insurance industry from the coming exodus |
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BumRushDaShow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
34. This only shows how Congress refuses to listen to the people |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:46 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I think they've all decided the new "deficit commission" will accomplish the goal |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
41. President Obama did little to advance Candidate Obama's healthcare proposals |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:58 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. +1000,000 nt |
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