Terry McAuliffe generally speaks his mind.
[H]e derides Republicans for using the same playbook they did during the Clinton years — drawing the debate into sideshow topics like death panels and tax hikes.
“I think for a lot of [Republicans], they could care less,” McAuliffe said, when asked if the White House was wasting its time trying to recruit bipartisan support. “They aren’t interested in reforming health care. Their interest is bringing the Obama administration down. That is clear. Many of them have publicly said that.”
Regardless of the topic, it seems that every debate ends up the same, right down to the death panels. It is simply tiresome to mainstream America.
Is health care being used as the instrument to destroy the Obama presidency, as McAuliffe suggests?
Hopefully by now, McAuliffe should realize that at least in Virginia, what he thinks is monumentally unimportant!
…but true.
He’s right, just read the comments of Republicans like Dimment, Cantor and Kyl. All you hear is “no”. What are their plans? All I hear is silence.
This is really good stuff, here! One has to ask….why is the White House “wasting it’s time trying to drum up bi-partisan support”? The answer, of course, is they’re looking for cover. They want to say “Republicans voted for this fiscal nightmare too”. So, last I checked, I was hearing “we won, get over it!” Republicans got voted out! We control the House by a wide margin! We control the Senate by a philibuster-proof majority (hooray for Franken!). We have the White House! So what is McAuliffe’s problem? Who cares if the Republicans don’t go along with it? If you know you’re right, and you have all the power, why isn’t Obamacare in the can already? I know why. McAuliffe knows why (and it makes him cry like a baby). Dems want cover. And after the Obama administration declares war on the nation’s intelligence gathering? They want Republican support? HAHAHAHA!!!!
A little too partisan for my tastes, slowpoke.
I am going to agree with Opinion and Lucky Duck. I guess you agree with those who just want to make sure Obama doesn’t accomplish anything?
When what he wants to accomplish is the complete destruction of the nation, you betcha! So….why is it again that the Dems, who “won everything” are crying about Republicans not going along? I didn’t catch the answer!
The only thing Republicans are doing wrong right now is not getting their message out about alternatives, which makes me think they must not have any. Now THAT’s a legitimate criticism of Republicans right now. But “they won’t sign on”. Come on, folks!
I have to agree with Slowpoke in one respect–what do the dems care about any republican ideas? They can easily pass the bills without republican support. So why the talk about budget reconciliation at 51 votes versus their filibuster-proof majority?
Perhaps they know that if they drop that card, midyears will be really interesting. So far all people against the rush have been branded as paid rioters. Maybe they are a bit concerned that their broadbrush demonization is actually wrong and it is working against them on this issue as well as the next election cycle.
I think most democrats want to find something we can all agree on. No all, but most. You know, I don’t care if the health care reform is democratically inspired or republican inspired. I don’t think most Americans care. I think most of us just want it to happen without costing the nation a fortune or our own selves a fortune.
I would not care if I never heard the words dem or repub again.
I don’t care either where it comes from but frankly, I think saying that most democrats want to find something we can all agree with is not supported by the recent history of this thing. There wasn’t talk about real bipartisanship until the Senate had some democrats who balked. And then it was democrats who faced a conservative community and reelection.
I think sometimes people give these politicians too much credit because playing politics is what they do as politicians–democrat or republican.
As Drew Pearson once said, “In Washington, all the right things are done for all the wrong reasons.”
Actually I didn’t necessarily mean all elected democrats. I meant the party in general. Perhaps I was being too generous. I am just madder at Repubs now than I am at dems.
Then I would agree with you that the public in general wants certain corrections to be made. Unfortunately it is both parties mucking it up. Guess I am showing my advanced age with the term “muck”. 🙂