Dem Rep. Raul Grijalva writing in USA Today: Forget Bipartisanship

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Opposing view: Forget bipartisanship
Republicans don’t want middle ground; they want to kill reform.

By Raul M. Grijalva

Reforming health care in this country is an urgent matter. For decades, we have endured a broken system that restricts and denies coverage when individuals need it most, leaving many of us one illness away from bankruptcy.

I am open to bipartisanship on legislation when it yields action and solutions. However, I am not in favor of bipartisanship when the other side's principal intention is to delay progress and undermine a bill.

Let's call it like it is. Most of what the Republicans want in the health care reform bill represents a victory for well-financed, private-interest greed. It's a gift to corporations, not consumers.

Moreover, introducing ideas that do not improve health care for the American people holds up the reform process. This, too, is an underhanded tactic. Delaying the process is not about making a better bill; it is about killing health care reform.

more here...

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/08/opposing-view-forget-bipartisanship.html

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1. k/r

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2. Thank you, Rep. Grijalva -- finally, the unvarnished truth about the "friends across the aisle." nt

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3. K&R. nt

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4. K&R

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5. I just love the Progressive Caucus

(and Rep. Grijalva too, of course - he's my Rep)

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/ ">Congressional Progressive Caucus