Analysis: Liberals tired of health care compromise

Analysis: Liberals tired of health care compromise

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By CHARLES BABINGTON and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON – Frustrated liberals have a question for President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers: Isn't it time the other guys gave a little ground on health care? What's the point of a bipartisan bill, they ask, if we're making all the concessions?

A case in point:

Sen. Charles Grassley, a key Republican negotiator on health care, was on a winning streak as Congress recessed for August, having wrung important concessions from Democrats, including an agreement not to tax employer-provided health insurance and a limit to demands on drug companies.

How did Grassley reciprocate? With an attack that struck Democrats as stunning and baseless. Grassley told an Iowa crowd he would not support a plan that "determines when you're going to pull the plug on grandma." The remark echoed conservative activists who wrongly claim a House health care bill would require Medicare recipients to discuss their end-of-life plans with doctors.

For liberals supporting far-reaching changes to the nation's health care system, it was another sign that months of negotiations have been a one-way street. It's time to move on without Republicans, they say.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090818/ap_on_an/us_health_care_overhaul_analysis

They don't give a shit about the country. They want health insurance reform to fail, not because it isn't vitally necessary, but because they don't want it to happen under a Democratic president.

Never mind they sat on their hands for TWELVE SOLID YEARS after Clinton's plan failed.

Any plan will have to be passed without them. It's the only way.

Democrats have the numbers. If they don't do this now, they never will.

and should be treated as such.

It no longer has any sort of rational platform, it no longer makes any plans, it no longer attracts any of the brighter fascists.

It's just a state of mind, a bunch of sore losers throwing tantrums who are incapable of doing anything but exalting the cult in the absence of any actual governance.

:dem:

-Laelth

It's time we stopped compromising.

I asked Obama on the online townhall on Thursday. " How much more right wing appeasement do we have to watch before you take the lead and start delivering the things a majority of the American people want."

We need to kick Obama's ass to the left. NOW. If not now, never.

"Why compromise at all with people who have always been wrong?"