Grassley: Some GOP-ers think Dem defeat best path to health compromise

[babylonsister]

What a pile of bovine excrement.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/56921-grassley-some-gop-ers-think-dem-defeat-best-path-to-health-compromise

Grassley: Some GOP-ers think Dem defeat best path to health compromise
By Michael O'Brien - 09/01/09 10:05 AM ET


Some Republican senators believe the only way to get a bipartisan agreement on healthcare is to defeat the bills proposed by Democrats, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday.

Grassley, a lead negotiator on healthcare reform as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, asserted that he believes that forcing Democrats' hands on healthcare and a public option for consumers would be too big of a gamble for the GOP.

"There's a feeling that the only way to get a bipartisan agreement, is to defeat a Democratic proposal in the first hand," Grassley said in his weekly news conference with Iowa reporters. "Then the Democrats will come to Republican leadership, and then at that point they'll know that the only way they're going to get healthcare reform is bipartisan."

Grassley worried that if the Republicans forced Democrats to go it alone, and the majority party were successful, the U.S. would be "stuck with that plan forever."

"We could elect a Republican president in the next election, a Republican majority in the Congress, and I don't think things like that, once changed, are going to be changed," he said, adding that he's "trying to avoid that roll of the dice."

[emulatorloo]

1. "We could elect a Republican president in the next election, a Republican majority in the Congress"

At the rate you are going Chuck, you and your party are headed for electoral oblivion.

Seriously this is a huge gamble for these creeps. I for one am going to work my ass off to get jerks like Grassley OUT in 2010.

[liberal N proud]

2. This is the whole reason they oppose anything the Democrats propose

It is why they offer no compromise and have come out with all the propaganda with the help of the liberal media.

[DJ13]

3. "We could elect a Republican president in the next election, a Republican majority in the Congress"

".....and we could just as easily ignore our constituents as the Democrats are doing now."

[Winterblues]

4. There is blood in the water

This is a fairly major battle as these type battles go. Republicans feel Democrats are bleeding and if they can stop this Health Care Bill they have a chance of survival, because they know if Democrats succeed in getting Americans Health Care they will be considered heroes and pretty much have a lock on the Majority for decades to come..Democrats are very timid because they are still smarting from the licking they took in 1994 over this very issue. They just can't decide on the reason they were beaten so badly...If they blink they will be torn apart by Republicans and I don't think they quite understand that...I know some do but those are considered "Progressives" and not held in very high esteem..I just don't understand why they can't make a better case for their vision of America..

[LiberalAndProud]

5. So first you piss 'em off and then you negotiate.

Standard GOP brilliance.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. If what passes is a bad plan and people hate it

then why wouldn't they be able to find the votes to repeal it? OTOH, If it's a good plan and people like it, then, well, Grassley, et. all would have to be heartless bastards (which many of them are) to try and repeal it but then again, Grassley, like all *good* Republicans, knows that they haven't been able to kill off Social Security and Medicare for as long as they have both existed. Why is that? Because the programs help people and people like them, so why the hell would they support people whom want to kill them?

I REALLY hope somebody is taking notes on Grassley's statements. He's really "spreading his feathers" right now!

Is it just me or are they starting to get a bit shrill all of the sudden?

:argh: