Now there's an unbiased source... Republicans had ample opportunity to join the conversation and yet still voted no even after they promised their votes after being given concession after concession.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:56 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: If you can't beat 'em... How do we know since he didn't even try? Democrats wanted to avoid another health care debate. Krauthammer says it best: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/07/08/krauthammer_democrats_dont _want_health_care_debated_again.html On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > It also doesn't mean that he shouldn't wield it. We can see a big > difference though in the Bush use of recession appointments (which I think > he misused) and how Obama is using them. Bush used a recession appointment > to appoint someone that Congress already rejected (twice at that point if I > remember correctly and both times it was a pretty bipartisan decision) where > as Obama is doing it to get someone into a needed position to navigate the > new health care laws when the republicans in Congress are not likely to even > allow a confirmation vote. I would say that his use of this is to get a > functional government where congressional republicans are obstructing his > ability to do so on partisan reasons rather than based on any issue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322755 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
