After debating health care reform for more than a year, President Obama says it's time for Democrats to deliver.
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Democrats are expected to use reconciliation within weeks, allowing them to bypass a Republican filibuster and pass a final bill with a simple majority of 51 votes in the Senate. Republicans, meanwhile, insist they cannot support the measure and that the American public does not want it to pass. Recent polling from CBS News shows people are growing impatient with the debate, even as strong support still exists for some elements of the Democrats' bills.
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As usual Dems allowed Repubs. to come out hard with fear tactics and demonization. The American people get worried, Dems. move to slow to assuage their worries, then the American people just get plain fed up. All while Repubs. smirk and hope to use the division to regain power while the American people lose out on REAL debate of the core issues.
ReplyDeleteAnd once again, it's Republicans who take part in the "polls". It's obvious when you look at the poll results.
ReplyDeleteI really didn't care for how the questions were written because they were written so your answers pretty much "had to" side with the Republicans.
There has been NO debate on core issues. Read the bill 9:25am, theres nothing in there that makes significant reform. Just because your ignorant enough to trust these crooks dosent mean the rest of us are. Your the blind leading the blind....
ReplyDelete925/942......CBS is by no means rebublican msm. I feel sorry for you having to go threw life with such large blinders on....
ReplyDelete9:47, that is my point. With all the fearmongering BS coming from Repubs. and the inability of Dems. to explain themselves (largely due to having to appeal to such a broad constituency) we haven't seen a true debate of what the core issues are. My previous comment says nothing about supporting the bill. But as we can see, the idealogues will quickly resort to insults whenever someone doesn't tow the line with them. Makes it pretty hard to have a constructive debate, don't you think?
ReplyDelete10:12 Large diverse base.Yep all the welfare base, morons that say things like after Osama is elected we wont have to worry about house, car or other payments, the very rich like Bill Gates, George Soros and others all the while blaming the Repubs as being the party of the rich, all the illegals (more welfare reciepients for the base) The conservatives that will start taking this country back in November and finish the job in 2012 are the middle class that think people should be respomsible for their selves and government shoud serve a very limited role.
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ReplyDeleteThat right, when you can't argue the facts try changing the subject. And if you don't like the eastern shore the road that brought you here can take you back to the hole you came from.
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to see all Republican representatives & senators just stay home & not vote on this thing!
ReplyDeleteI have to laugh when the eastern shore insults start flying ! First off all great minds have come from small towns so go back to the city you came from stupid !
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