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"With health care stymied by GOP divides, the White House has quietly begun reaching across the aisle."
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/649860?unlock=UC49MYE85UIOOAHT
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Rep. Henry Cuellar said White House staff reached out Monday to him and some individual members of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition, two groups filled with moderate and conservative Democrats, many of whom represent swing districts and have reputations for working across the aisle.
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)gordianot
(15,237 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)I would think that the democratic party unified poses a far greater risk to them....especially after midterms. They are looking ahead and they are anticipating what we all are anticipating: a tsunami backlash.
theglammistress
(348 posts)He's vastly unpopular and highly ineffective. And the resistance will not stand for this. So he can bark up another tree. Plus, he can bite me.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)So he can destroy the ACA
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)that was thrown out there for media consumption. Trying to change the narrative.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Then he has to be an honest broker and that is a tough line for him to hoe.