Say It Ain't So Already

Republican Arrogance and Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds

February 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM Leave a comment

In light of the Republican’s year-long plan (and counting) to “just say no” to anything Democrats or President Obama propose, House Democrats recently began tossing around the idea of invoking the reconciliation process in order to get health care reform legislation moving.

Now the Republicans are asking Obama to take reconciliation off the table as a “show of good faith,” as if trying, again and again, to work with them for the last year wasn’t enough of a “show of good faith:”

The day after President Obama announced his plan to host a bipartisan support on health care reform, House Republican leaders wrote a letter to the White House, asking that the reconciliation process be taken off the table as a “show of good faith” to the GOP.

The request probably generated some laughter among Democratic leaders. In effect, Boehner and Cantor said they’d be more willing to talk about health care reform if the president agrees in advance to give Republicans the opportunity to kill health care reform.

Roll Call reports today that reconciliation will, thankfully, remain on the table.

If we had an effective, competent media that reported this shit and exposed it for the laughable hypocrisy it is, Republicans would be far less likely to play these games and the country might actually be able to crawl forward and inch or two.

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