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Wethal| 2.10.10 @ 2:20PM
http://www.washingtonexaminer......z0f9qBWaB9
Despite the invite to the GOP to the summit, the Dems will try to ram through reconciliation anyway.
Siegfried X| 2.10.10 @ 2:35PM
According to various reports, the Democrats have already decided to use reconciliation, and Obama expects to go into the Republican townhall with the deal already in his pocket. The Democrats in House and Senate will be agreed.
So the meeting with Republicans will just be for spin. Obama, controlling the microphone and making all the rules, plus lying through his teeth, will smear the Republicans.
Ellis Wyatt| 2.11.10 @ 8:56AM
They could try reconciliation but the not so secret in DC is that they don't have near the votes in the house to accomplish reconciliation. Reconciliation is simply not an option. The downside also with reconsiliation is even if they had the votes a simple majority could repeal the law just as easily when the GOP regains control of Congress in the coming election. Reconciliation is a no win situation for the dems even if they could accomplish it.
The monstrous bill that is despised by the American public is essentially dead. Obama will be forced to start over if he expects to get anything passed. The summit is pure political theatre and the republicans hold a strong position on this issue. I think they should tell him no thanks.
Big Jim| 2.10.10 @ 3:39PM
This will not happen. These a-holes are like flies in a spider web, the more they wiggle the more entrapped they become. Celebrate their idiocy!
martha| 2.10.10 @ 11:09PM
There is one other thing the Republicans can do.
Meet with the President without cameras.
The fact that President Blamebush wants the cameras there should be seen as a big red flag to the Republicans. He's planning to make them look bad again. They'll get flack for not being transparent but hey they're screwed any way they turn.
sre| 2.11.10 @ 9:59AM
How about this simple proposal: The Republicans agree to show up and debate ONLY IF the Dems agree they won't use reconciliation.
This should smoke out who's up to what.