The joke's on you, America
Pardon my French, but I guess this is Obama’s way of telling the American people “screw you.”
The Plum Line: The game of chicken commenceth — right now.
In the course of unveiling Obama’s new health reform proposal on a conference call with reporters this morning, White House advisers made it clearer than ever before: If the GOP filibusters health reform, Dems will move forward on their own and pass it via reconciliation.
The assertion, which is likely to spark an angry response from GOP leaders, ups the stakes in advance of the summit by essentially daring Republicans to try to block reform.
“The President expects and believes the American people deserve an up or down vote on health reform,” White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said on the call.
Pfeiffer said no decision had been made how to proceed, pending the outcome of the summit. But he added that Obama’s proposal is designed to have “maximum flexibility to ensure that we can get an up or down vote if the opposition decides to take the extraordinary step of filibustering health reform.”
Translation: If the GOP doesn’t cooperate with us in any meaningful sense, we’re moving forward on our own.
I’ll have more on the President’s craptastic health care plan shortly.
No wonder Obama’s so unpopular.
Via memeorandum
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I wonder if we are moving towards the end of filibusters? The minority party realizes how powerful it is to stop the other side but then when the tables are turned they don’t like it. It’s a question of time before the Senate rules are changed.
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