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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (41058)2/9/2010 8:55:58 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
frm a WSJ article:

There was immediate skepticism from Mr. Obama's own party that the forum would break the impasse. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) claimed he had reached out to Republicans "on several occasions" last year to seek their ideas and feedback. "I was, however, disappointed that these meetings did not result in any serious follow-through to work together (to push the democrat agenda) in a bipartisan fashion," he said.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said he welcomed the outreach. "Obviously, I am pleased that the White House finally seems interested in a real, bipartisan conversation on health care," he said in a statement. "The problem with the Democrats' health-care bills is not that the American people don't understand them; the American people do understand them, and they don't like them."

Mr. Boehner added that "the best way to start on real, bipartisan reform would be to scrap those bills and focus on the kind of step-by-step improvements that will lower health-care costs and expand access."

A White House aide on Sunday said the president didn't intend to start from scratch. "We're not starting over. We're coming in with our plan,"

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His negotiations are most likely to take the same form that he has repeatedly demonstrated in the past: "Elections have consequences, we won, shut up."
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