BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Here’s the essence of the gulf between House Republicans and Democrats on the Obama health care bill: According to Kelly Kennedy writing in USA Today:
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Obama, Democrats Misjudged Mandate
BY DAVID WINSTON
Reprinted from Roll Call
“I won.”
Those were President Barack Obama’s pointed words to Republican Congressional leaders when they challenged his proposed stimulus package in a White House meeting held just three days after his swearing-in. As he was to do for the next 20 months, Obama ignored GOP concerns and went on to cram a nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package through Congress, promising unemployment would not go above 8 percent.
Fight’s In The Present, Not The Past
BY JOHN FEEHERY
As it turns out, we don’t have to re-enact the Civil War. The Health Care law is so bad, we don’t have to stretch back to the 18th or 19th centuries (or the 20th century for that matter) to come up with analogies to fight it.
Simple Majority Not So Simple
BY ROBERT WALKER
Some years back when I served in the Congress I was told that for every complex, complicated problem there is a simple, easy answer. And invariably that answer is wrong.
Whenever I hear the President or Administration spokesmen talking about passing their health bill with a “simple up and down vote” or a “simple majority” I am reminded of what I was told years ago.
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Why Dems Believe Health Care Reform A Must
BY GARY ANDRES
President Obama confirmed the worst kept secret in Washington this week: Democrats will move health legislation forward in Congress without any Republican support, despite a bevy of polls saying slow down or start over.
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