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Originally Posted by dippin
You mean the MA elections where Brown didn't run a single ad on healthcare and has himself voted for a MA healthcare reform that contains many of the provisions currently on the senate proposal?
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Yes.
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This whole thing is mystifying to me: Obama and the democrats ran on healthcare reform, won the presidency and overwhelming majority of both houses, and have not simply approved healthcare reform because of archaic senate procedural rules,...
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They have a super majority. Even today they could pass whatever they want. they do not need a single Republican.
The pattern for Democrats is that they need someone to blame their inadequacies on. It is always someone else's fault. The are always forced, when they do something un-popular with their base. Doesn't it ever get old?
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and yet a win by a guy that would be considered a commie pinko in parts of the south is supposed to be evidence that HCR is unpopular?
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Health care reform is not unpopular, just the current bills on the table. If Obama scales it down and takes an incremental approach he could get everything he wants.
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Just like the whole notion now that if democrats use procedural maneuvers to pass HCR before Brown takes the seat they are violating some high moral standard, while the republicans using a procedural maneuver to block it are defending the interests of the people.
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Sometimes it pays to be honest about what you are. If I were President, I would get it done, and explain it later. You know, like Bush did with the Iraq war, enhance interrogation, Gitmo, wiretaps, etc, etc, etc. When Bush said he would do everything in his power to prevent another attack, some of us actually knew what he meant.