After CBO Analysis, White House Distances Self From Kennedy Bill

[Freddie Stubbs]

June 16, 2009 9:14 AM

Kennedy?

Kennedy who?

"This is not the Administration’s bill," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement following the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of Sen. Ted Kennedy's health care reform legislation, "and it's not even the final Senate Committee bill."

Both statements are true, though it's not clear who, if anyone, had been saying that the legislation drafted by the powerful chairman of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pension Committee constituted President Obama's bill. Kennedy is but one of several legislators taking a crack and drafting legislation that will proceed through the legislative meat grinder and result in a bill that President Obama will sign. In reality, there is no actual "Administration" bill.

more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/after-cbo-analysis-white-house-distances-self-from-kennedy-bill.html

[Autumn]

1. Poor Teddy n/t

[Beacool]

2. Is Teddy about to be thrown under the bus?

:D

[ellacott]

3. You guys are too funny

I bet you are praying for this to be true.

[Beacool]

7. Hmmm, I plead the fifth..........

:7

[Dawgs]

4. Another bullshit title on a bullshit post.

Wow!

[Hutzpa]

6. Its as if they're getting

some of knee-jerk reaction from underneath the table of their laptop/pc.

Unbelievable!!

[Occam Bandage]

5. Kennedy's done his job:

Provide a costly, flawed boondoggle of a bill, thus ensuring that whatever Obama does will look moderate by comparison. Same game we've played with every other major bill.

[Thrill]

9. The bill, Dodd presented for Kennedy didn't even include the public option

.

[Thrill]

8. Typical Jake Tapper.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I didn't get the impression that the bill was even that good

So, why would it be bad for President Obama to "distance" himself from it? :shrug: None of us wants a plan that leaves a significant number of people uninsured AFTER 10 years and reportedly does not offer a public option, do we? I would've thought Kennedy would've proposed a more progressive solution?