On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Yet nothing approaching that made it to a vote, let a lone passed." > > Who said it did? > > "And still you say there was no compromise, that it was a party-line > shove down the throat of America. " > > Say what? There was plenty of compromise. All on the Democrat side. The > Louisiana Purchase, the Corn Husker Kickback, the no taxes on Cadillac > insurance > plans for unions, and so on.
You seemed to be claiming that the Health Insurance Reform bill was 100% a Democratic construct that blocked out Republican input and kowtowed to the extremities of the Democratic party. At least, that's what you offered up when I was talking about political parties pushing a hard party line while catering to the extremes of their party. Perhaps I misunderstood your statement. > "You mean the meetings of the Gang of 6 that helped craft the original bill > that had 3 Republicans on it and no Democrats from the Progressive caucus" > > No, like this: > > http://www.rollcall.com/news/39713-1.html or > http://thehill.com/homenews/house/63941-democrats-lock-republicans-out-of-committee-room You do realize that that incident has nothing to do with the Healthcare Insurance Reform process, right? That was a spat over committee function relating to Countrywide Mortgage and potential sweetheart deals with Dodd. I'd also add that I supported the move to investigate and subpoena. But it has nothing to do with Democrats working with Republicans on healthcare. Ju ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331081 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
