GOP senator signals fading hopes on health care

Source: AP

WASHINGTON – A leading GOP negotiator on health care struck a further blow to fading chances of a bipartisan compromise by saying Democratic proposals would restrict medical choices and make the country's "finances sicker without saving you money."

The criticism from Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., echoed that of many opponents of the Democratic plans under consideration in Congress. But Enzi's judgment was especially noteworthy because he is one of only three Republicans who have been willing to consider a bipartisan bill in the Senate.

In the Republicans' weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday, Enzi said any health care legislation must lower medical costs for Americans without increasing deficits and the national debt.

"The bills introduced by congressional Democrats fail to meet these standards," he said.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul_republicans_14

---

Fuck you, Enzi.

So I don't give a rat's ass what any GOP'er says. We in this country sent a full and clear message to Washington and IF they don't get this round, we'll send it again and again and again. We want a plan.

elections have consequences. Sucks when you lost.

The mafia signaled that law enforcement efforts to stop the mafia had not met the mafia's standards and so would not get mafia support and ultimately fail.

Seriously, why does any GOP get any credibility on this issue? There are no GOP negotiaters on Health care. Only people assigned to stall the process until it comes to a halt and nothing gets done.

Why are Blue Dogs afraid of not getting votes from people who never did and never will vote for them?

Why does the MSM go to great lengths to ask Repugs what they think? It has not changed much since Bush was in the White House and Repugs ruled Congress. I wonder what the ratio of Conservative pundits/guests to Liberal pundits/guests is and how it's changed since the election. I'll bet there are a few more Dems on....but damn few more.

Why is everybody acting like the Repugs won???


Money?

You've raised an excellent question, and being from the rural South, I will tell you it's because since progressives are in a minority down here, a Democrat has to win not only the liberal voters but also a significant piece of the conservative electorate. If conservatives overwhelmingly turn against them (which can happen very easily in rural, conservative areas), they cannot get elected.

the Democrats can rally behind the memory of Ted Kennedy and pass a bill that actually reforms the system, or at the least, offers a public option in his name.

We dont give two shits what you think.

We didnt vote for a Democratic Congress and President Obama just so you asswipes could stay in charge.

Get over yourselves.

n/t

The words, "struck a further blow to fading chances of a bipartisan compromise" in the first line of the article tells me that what follows will be useful for nothing other than lining a litter box.

this might make me a bad person, but I think that THERE ARE certain
people that it's OK to hate. People (use the term loosely) like Enzi spring to mind. What a piece of trash.

Enough is enough!

comes out of the mouth of the Republicans.

I wish these fucking hypocrites would stop acting like they wanted to pass a bill. Be proud of their obstructionism.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

were going to send every worker in America over to Wall Street and pay Wall Street billions to "compensate' Wall Street for the "burden" of taking on all that extra business?

Plan here is: relieve the insurance companies of all that pesky regulation that each state has had the gall to impose upon them without imposing federal regulation. While you are at it, send them 50 million new customers who either have to buy insurance or pay a penalty (probably pay the penalty to the insurance companies). Then let the insurance companies continue raising their prices on both their old and new customers. And if some of the 50 million can't pay, use taxpayer money to pay the insurance companies on their behalf.

That is my understanding of the things the Republicans have proposed.

then, when they start to filibuster, do a reconciliation move to give them a bit of their own ignorant medicine, proving they were going to block it if they didn't do reconciliation.

Please Dems, do it for Teddy.

REAL UHC.

when the Republicans regain the majoriy in the Senate. However, passing a good bill might forestall that. And, my sense is that the Republicans will use it the next time they have the majority, no matter what we do now, anyway.

This is the most important legislation since 1964. It's worth it. The Senate voting rules are dumb anyway, IMO.

and we will get a even better plan

I just tend to get pretty pissy when I have a day like this. It's not a lot of fun when the mail consists of 4 more medical bills that we can't pay and I see people doing everything in their power to keep the status quo for the big insurance companies. I retract the use of the word hate in the earlier statement since I don't want to sink to the repubs level.
I never learned to slither like they do.

You should tune in to listen to Malloy on the weeknights. He hates Republicans too, and as your post points out there are a lot of Americans with lots of reasons to hate them.

Secondly, we aren't going to win unless we get on the same playing field that they are on. If we continue to try to be understanding and continue to appease them ,there is no hope for any change for the better. If they can hate us viscerally for wanting to save the country, IMO it is healthy and productive for us to despise them for wanting to destroy it.

Good luck gettng out of your financial hole. Please don't feel like detesting sub-human filth like Enzi and your senior senator makes you a bad person. They are beneath contempt, and we will defeat them as long as we don't get too friendly with them

I had to laugh when I heard Teddy, Jr. say at the funeral that his father taught him the hard things, like how to like Republicans. Unfortunely, the camera chose to pan to Dummya at that point, and my stomach turned, so I stopped laughing.

and would have left everyone with high deductible and copay insurance that covered less and less each year- in other words, junk insurance.

This was the guy that Obama held up at his health care press conference as a Republican "having ideas."

and to the brink of bankruptcy...get outta the way.

Tell this piece of shit that he had no problem creating a deficit by giving away my tax dollars to the rich, starting and supporting and illegal war, and handing out no bid contracts to his cronies. Makes me want to body slam these assholes. Even worse is the press kissing their ass. Soon as WE THE PEOPLE want something it becomes fiscally irresponsible? Go fuck yourselves. And every talking head that doesn't call them out can go to hell.

never expected to vote for it.

AP is crap and yahoo news collects all the crap articles.

:eyes:

POS bastard. Fuck you.

So, who the f**k should care what HE has to say about the hopes of passing "bipartisan" HCR legislation?!!! Well, I know the corporate mediawhores care about what these a**holes say but I mean, who else????

Reading this crap makes me sick to my stomach

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SenatorEnzi&view=videos

Funny thing is, his videos have got such few views that it shows that the Senator has no following except himself

I'm hoping that with the outpouring of love, respect and admiration for Senator Kennedy will kick some of the traitorous Democratic senators to get with the program and support meaningful healthcare reform.

Just get the damn bill passed, NOW!

GOOD! We do not need the pukes or this bipartisan bullshit! FUCK THEM!

It is NOT a blow to Health Care reform, just a whiny puke who is no chance of getting his way.

cause I know he can't be for increasing taxes.

Enzi said any health care legislation must lower medical costs for Americans without increasing deficits and the national debt.

kill health care reform. "Ah, with Ted gone there's no hope now"....lying sacks of shit! They've never had ANY intention of passing ANY health care reform. They must be feeling very desperate right now.

which can be found here (on health care issues):

http://www.ontheissues.org/social/Michael_Enzi_Health_Care.htm

Making him "a leading GOP negotiator on health care" seems to have sent the clear signal that the Republicans had no intention of attempting a bipartisan compromise.

Sam

We don't need these co**suckers to pass a health bill. Don't want them. My message to them is, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out (watch, in ten years we'll have something that is akin to medicare for everyone and republicans will be shouting "keep your government hands off my national health service" at rallies while believing universal health care was a conservative idea). As to their "rage" and resentment if we pass a health bill without "bipartisan" support - so what. We've weathered worse in this country, like eight years of raygun and another eight with shit-for-brains as presidents. If we survived that, we can survive anything. Bring it on. Even a civil war would be preferable to tolerating all this rank evil and stupidity anymore.

:rofl:

Well, I guess we'll just have to pass health insurance reform without the Republicans, then!

Any bill that passes anyway will be a "bipartisan compromise"....between the liberal and conservative wings of the Democratic Party.

THATS what you call "bi-partisan"?? lmfaooooooooooo

The Democratic Party is a very diversified party and we don't have the sheepish mentality of the Republicans who agree with whatever their exalted leaders Limbaugh, Steele, and Whannity say.

I'd be more than happy to pass a bipartisan health care bill, however the Republicans have NO desire to reform health care. They're more concerned with giving tax breaks to their rich friends while the rest of us struggle harder and harder to make ends meet.

Health care reform WILL be passed by this Congress. Join us if you want to, otherwise get out of the way so you don't get run over.

:nuke:

:hi:
BTW, that douche you replied to has been tombstoned. :)

...must lower medical costs for Americans without increasing deficits and the national debt."

....hey mikey, what was the deficit and national debt on the last day of the 106th congress when scum like you opened the bucket-shops and provided the windfall casino profits to wall street, big banking and politicians that has cost the American people trillions and crashed our economy?

....why aren't you worried more about your friends who bet against the housing market surviving while creating the loan conditions that crashed that market as they pocketed trillions?....Republicans are the real threat to our deficit and national debt not meaningful Healthcare Reform with a strong Public Option....

"...and make the country's 'finances sicker without saving you money."....do me a favor mikey, stop worrying about me and my country; we can no longer afford the high cost of Republican advice....