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BaucusCare: "A Bipartisan Bill With No Bipartisan Support"

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 07:22:18 PM EST
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MoBlue points out this quote reported by ABC:

As one top Democrat told me, the fundamental problem [with Baucuscare] is that Democrats “are being asked to support a bipartisan bill that doesn’t have bipartisan support.” The compromise without the cover.

Indeed. And Obama wants this? Really? Nuts.

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    BaucusCare: "A Bipartisan Bill With No Bipartisan Support" | 13 comments (13 topical)

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    It was heartening to see... (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by magster on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 08:08:38 PM EST
    Obama continue to advocate for PO in his speech today.  If the PO was dead, he would have dropped it from his speeches by now.

    Pelosi and Obama's statements would explain Conrad's request to the CBO to score the PO over 20 years so that the price tag would increase and undermine political will for any reform.

    Some enterprising Dem should ask the (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by MO Blue on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 10:32:30 PM EST
    CBO to score Medicare For All, co-ops and letting the insurance industry run a muck for the next 20 years.

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    Heh (none / 0) (#6)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 08:12:53 PM EST
    Conrad is a hoot.

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    Really (none / 0) (#1)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 07:38:55 PM EST
    there isnt going to be a bipartisan bill because no republican is going to vote for it EVEN it had everything they wanted in it. I'm glad to see taht there's at least one person (the one who said this) who actually understands this. Sheesh.

    That was funny (none / 0) (#3)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 08:01:05 PM EST
    So I'll let the off topic slide.

    The Wilson thing totally bored me though.

    Stop the presses!! Republicans are racists!

    You know I do not get to write that in a post, but consider there in everything I write about them.

    No (none / 0) (#7)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 09:05:48 PM EST
    not liking Obama is simply not based on race and using that only plays into their hands. The fact of teh matter si they are a bunch of crazy fundamentalist jihadists. I can imagine Wilson saying this same thing if Hillary or John Edwards ended up being President too.

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    I think BTD (none / 0) (#8)
    by WS on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 09:45:36 PM EST
    was referring to Wilson and undocumented immigrants.  The bill clearly says that undocumented immigrants will not be part of the health care plan but Wilson's paranoid mind thinks otherwise.  

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    Oh (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 09:46:50 PM EST
    okay. Yeah, that probably is true then.

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    No republican support (none / 0) (#11)
    by BrassTacks on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 01:14:53 AM EST
    And the Baucus Bill is fast losing the support of Progressives in the Senate.  I've already heard that Kerry won't support it and Rockefeller won't either.  I bet more progressives will join them.  Sounds like this bill won't get even 51 votes.  It's DOA.  

    Let's hope it is DOA (5.00 / 4) (#13)
    by MO Blue on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 08:36:05 AM EST
    It is legislation written by and for the insurance industry.

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    That would be poetic justice (5.00 / 4) (#14)
    by sj on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 11:22:48 AM EST
    The insurance industry not getting what they paid good money for, I mean.  After all, that's the position they've put their customers in for years.

    Okay, that whole bit is a grammatical nightmare, but y'all know what I mean.

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    Glad to hear that about Kerry (4.50 / 2) (#12)
    by ruffian on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 08:16:14 AM EST
    Being a pall-bearer for Ted kennedy and then supporting the Baucus bill would require a level of cynicism would make even my head explode.

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    how about Peoria? (none / 0) (#15)
    by diogenes on Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 09:56:57 PM EST
    The point isn't that there is no bipartisan support in the senate.  The point is that there is support among independents and now republicans can be made to look like obstructionists rather than letting them work with the majority against a budget-busting bill that independents are ambivalent about at best.

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