Sen. Cardin: Dems, Obama Never Connected BP Spill To The Need For Climate Change Legislation
Monday, July 26, 2010
The public option plan(s) were floated out, but again, the votes weren't there.
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Not true. Demonstrably false.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics.
What Obama, Rahm Emanuel, David Plouffe, David Axelrod, & all DLCers, have to do in addition is insist that the policies and legislation they're pushing is really populist and not the stuff of Republicans' dreams.
The Senate Finance Committee's bill (Max Baucus's bill) was the bill the White House intended to prevail over the 3 other committees working on healthcare reform bills. It prevailed because Obama undermined the other committees.
The Baucus bill was written by Liz Fowler, former executive at WellPoint (Baucus hired her as senior counsel to him as the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee). So much for Candidate Obama's pledge on restricting lobbyists from writing our laws (Obama just hired Liz Fowler to implement the legislation -
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In the end, the votes for a public option were there, both in the Senate and the House.
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In the end, Obama blocked it.
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