I have memories of Bush the Elder’s cave-in at Andrews Air Force Base.

Beltway Republicans always cave in the name of “bipartisanship”. Obama believes he can make them look bad on television, and he’s right.

NEVER trust the Beltway GOP to put the hearse in the right place in a two-car funeral, especially when they’ve got the date of the funeral wrong.

This president is a study in photo-op politics. Is he fooling anybody but his die hard followers?

What was it that somebody said about putting lipstick on a pig??

20) Please explain to your constituants that you have to spend your way out of a recession.

I would just change “talk to Republicans” to “talk at Republicans” as that is what Obambi wants. Of course he’ll win because repubs would be behind the camera learning at the feet of the obamagod. We need more Ryans and fewer imbeciles on our side.

n/t

“Mr President, when you spoke to Congress around Labor Day last year about health care, you said ‘there is agreement in this chamber on about 80 percent of what needs to be done.’ If you were telling the truth then, why do you keep acting like the Republicans have never offered any ideas or expressed any common ground? And why doesn’t Congress go for that 80% that you talked about instead of you and the Democratic leadership wasting time fingerpointing whenever there is a TV camera turned on?”

That’s a good way of putting it. Obama has painted himself into a corner and after a whole year of pee-ing on the GOP he now wants to try and bargain with them because he has no where else to go.

It’s like he drove his car through a big puddle and splashed the Republicans as he laughed and gave them the finger but a half mile later he ran out of gas and now expects those same people to help push his car to the gas station.

No way Jose.

Please help me prescribe blue and red pills for the “old” Americans instead of the costly transplants.
Please help me stop the doctors from taking out your tonsils.
Please help me explain to Americans that we are not going to pull that plug on Granny, which she never got.

Please focus on nothing else but MY health care initiative. Quit wasting time on silly stuff like Ft. Hood, crotch bombers, and other terro, um - thuggish acts. Those things just distract from MY health care. Napolitano’s doing a swell job.

Please rememebr Bush created this boondoggle. My plan fixes it.

Please don’t listen to that guy in Ted Kennedy’s seat.. Don’t pay attention to any of the polls you see regaridng MY hc plan. And above all don’t watch any Fox coverage of hc. They lie.

Please note I have the Nobel. Not you. I’m annointed and know what’s best.

always seems to mean “do what the Democrats want to do.”

The Reagans had the right idea.

Just Say No.

We will get back with you on this, right after the November elections, but lets work on the economy & jobs for now. What a prize he is!

As usual Dan, your writing is excellent.

Just watched debate between Andrea Tantaros (I love her) and Bob “Comrade” Beckel on Fox. Tantaros and Fox poll said (43%) absolutely do not conference unless a FULL start from scratch. Only 23% think this bill should move forward.

Tantaros then outlined the key quality points that conservatives have been making about HC reform for the last year. The key, (and this will never change for Dems in current HC form) is that they want it cemented to be government run…..and nothing else matters. Also, the Dems still run the “you don’t want to help people” bogus argument, and “what about the uninsured?” Then they won’t listen to any of the 500 rational, logical solutions for above WITHOUT a socialized medicine bill and they won’t listen to arguments for killing this form of bill and starting again. Then they go into large number of lies and spin again.

This above is a perfect microcosm of what a Obama conference would be like with the GOP….except he would inject volumes of speeches in the middle and drown out all reason and spin acres of webs to try to mess up the GOP…..and…..90% of GOP are not even as tough and dynamic as Tantaros …..on a bad day.

The GOP has logic, reason, and polling on their side and they do not need to defend. They can also say they already have attempted to talk to the President (which they did) and the President he said “no restart”….and he is still saying it.

GOP should absolutely NOT do a HC reform conference until this bill in current form is 100% dead.

The GOP has a choice here. Remember, choices have consequences, so choose wisely.

The MSM is going to paint the GOP as “obstructionist” no matter what they decide to do. Knowing that, and knowing that both the GOP base and at least 55% of the independents are against 0’s health care program, why give him the opportunity to say, “I told you so?” Instead, why not put out a, say, ten point HC program that we might be able to support?

My first choice would be for the GOP to say, “Sorry, Mr. President. You have given us the bum’s rush for the last 24 months, so we don’t see any need to help you out at this juncture. ”

The alternative is to say, “Sure. But, first, you have to agree to start again, killing the current monstrosity. It is so gross that we do not believe that it can be repaired and talking about the impossible with you just doesn’t make sense.”

several of the posters above in that:

1) the Republicans with be characterized as obstructionists with or without attending a meeting (so why go), and

2) they have a chance to appear to be the ones who are really listening to the American people by saying, “let’s postpone healthcare until we address jobs, the economy and the deficit first”.

FInally, several others at the beginning of this thread, I think, reflect the reaction the conservative base will have if the Republicans attend this meeting: distrust- in Obama’s motives, fear- that the Republicans will cave, and anger- that the Republicans will appear even willing to cooperate after being bullied for months. What the base wants is a steel-spined, principled “No thanks. Not now and not with these bills.” If they did that, I would be cheering. No more nerf swords brought to gun fights!

The Democrats are being hypocritical.

They know that the Republicans have few tools to use when they are in the minority, with no meaningful input or consensus on the process let alone the legislations.

In times like these, the filibuster is one of the few tools the minority has to protect it’s rights.

If the Obama Administration and the Democrats actually wanted to work together…they wouldn’t just create photo-op moments for Republicans and Democrats to talk…they would sit down up front and work on a bipartisan approach.

There is much common ground on healthcare. They should use the “summit” Obama is calling for to find meaning reform a majority of Americans can support…and pass that.

They can make a difference without jamming much of their partisan/liberal agenda down America’s throat.

The politics of blaming Republican on using the filibuster when they won’t involve them in meaning debate and drafting of important legislation is less than sincere.

This televised propaganda ploy is all for show!

The man is a narcissist - he will promise one thing, then turn around and do whatever he really intended to do in the first place. And if the Republicans don’t do what he wants them to do, he will whine that we aren’t playing nice. Waaahhh. Poor baby…..

They’re too likely to fall for something. Let DeMint and Dr Coburn be the spokespeople for the GOP Senate Caucus in Bambi’s little CSPAN-op.

I don’t see a single thing wrong with publicly, on TV, giving Bambi the proverbial finger and telling him we’ll see what the American people think in November. This is all the base has ever wanted from the leaders.

Mr Bambi, here’s our proposal. Texas-style tort reform. Period. Nothing else. No 2500 pages, nothing.

Take it or leave it.

because if I can get you Republicans to get into healthcare with me, I tacitly get you to consent to ignoring the Constitution.

#2 Didn’t we just see what happens to the team who falls prey to an on-side kick?