After Grassley Spreads “Death Panel” Lie, Obama Still Wants to Work with Him
Just gonna keep beating our heads against the wall until it starts to feel good:
Undaunted by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s declaration that the Democratic health care agenda might empower the government to “pull the plug on grandma,” President Obama still hopes to achieve a bipartisan reform bill, his spokesman said Thursday.
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“Obviously the president is continuing to talk to lawmakers in hope that the Finance Committee can come to some kind of agreement,” said Gibbs.
But, Mr. Gibbs, Grassley and his Republican comrades on the Finance Committee aren’t interested in an agreement. The GOP’s strategy, and they haven’t exactly been secretive about it, is to stall the healthcare bill until it dies and then profit from it in 2010. Grassley’s use of the completely untrue “death panel” rhetoric doesn’t really show that Democrats should work more with him.
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