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Obama to Republicans: ‘Can we talk?’

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February 8, 2010

President Barack Obama wants to sit down and talk to Republicans and Democrats about health care.

And he wants to do it publicly.

Obama said Sunday he will meet with Democratic and Republican members of Congress to try and find a bipartisan solution to health care reform.

Obama’s administration-defining effort to refomr the nation’s health care system hit hit a brick wall when Democrats lost their 60-seat “supermajority” in the Senate when Republican Scott Brown captured the Massachusetts seat long held by Ted Kennedy.

Up until then, Obama and the Democrats didn’t think they needed Republicans to pass health care.

Now they do.

However, Obama claimed he is not backing down on his promise to revamp the health care system.

Obama said the half-day February 25 meeting, televised live, will “go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there.”

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8 Responses to Obama to Republicans: ‘Can we talk?’

  1. xear818

    February 8, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    A power grab by the health insurance industry and big pharma let’s hope this nonsense goes down in flames.

    The people have spoken in Mass. now Obama you can go back to bailing out Goldman Sachs, AIG, and other banking interests.

  2. almandine

    February 8, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    Obama said the half-day February 25 meeting, televised live, will “go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there.”

    Yep… wading “systematically” thru all the “best” ideas in half a day sounds about right, huh?

    The Flim Flam Man comes to town; hold on for dear life.

  3. griff

    February 8, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Ha. I thought that’s what they’ve been doing for nearly a year.

  4. bryan mcclellan

    February 9, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    George.C.Scott would not be proud of this upcoming performance..

  5. AustinRanter

    February 8, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    Just because Obama and his Admin don’t know what they’re doing…that’s no reason to bad mouth their policies and poor judgment and repeated failures.

    Oh, and not to forget a large number of undelivered promises made during the campaign that was related to important and relevant issues we face today.

    Gezzzzz, is there no mercy for people who are taking our country to the brink of ruin?

    In all fairness I don’t want to leave out the other side of the political equation…you know the extremeist obstructionist. They’re just trying to do what’s in the best interest of our country. Just because they placate to special interest like their counterparts isn’t any reason to criticize these folks.

  6. griff

    February 8, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    I like how the media blames Obama’s healthcare failure on one Senate seat. It was doomed way before that. As I said at the time, Scott Brown gave the Democrats a comfortable excuse for their retreat and allowed them to save face with their own party faithful.

    Now they can blame it on the Republicans even though they have only themselves to blame for losing a Senate seat that’s been held by Democrats for some 60 years.

  7. woody188

    February 8, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    Have to keep the distraction going. Still have a regional war and cap & trade to force through and they don’t want anyone paying attention while that is done. Have to make sure we are divided as a nation for mid-terms.

  8. Carl Nemo

    February 9, 2010 at 12:42 am

    What “We the people” need for the next three years is simply silence on their collective parts.

    When they talk and scheme, they cost us us big bucks while moving this nation closer to the abyss with never-ending bad legislation… : |

    Carl Nemo **==