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n2doc

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Wed Dec-30-09 02:14 PM
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Fooled ya again!

"I will vote against any plan that doesn't include a public option."

You read that here in an Oct. 9 commentary piece for the Tribune by U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. He insisted that a government-run insurance plan was the key to affordable, accessible, quality health care. "A public option must be a central component of any health insurance reform legislation," he wrote.

A couple of weeks later, he said on C-SPAN: "I have stated it, unequivocally, that if the final package does not carry with it the strong public option that would allow individuals to have competition ... then I would not vote for that legislation."

He even threatened to conduct his own filibuster.

The darn thing is, some people took him at his word. For a while there, a few Democrats thought Burris just might be the savior of government-run health insurance.

After all, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needed every Democratic vote, and Burris said he wouldn't vote...

Gotcha!

Burris voted, along with every other Democrat in the Senate, for a bill that doesn't include even a whiff of the public option.

And for those who may have though that "unequivocally" meant "unequivocally"?

"We don't want to get caught up in language," he told the Associated Press.

more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-1229edit1dec29,0,7237966.story

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MNDemNY

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Wed Dec-30-09 02:19 PM
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1. "final package" do you comprehend those two words?

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n2doc

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Wed Dec-30-09 02:20 PM
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2. Can I hold you to that when he votes for it?

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MNDemNY

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Wed Dec-30-09 03:16 PM
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4. Hold watever you want, but that is what he said.

Do I think he has the balls to hold out? doubt it. Hope so, but I doubt it.

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GOTV

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Wed Dec-30-09 02:53 PM
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3. Didn't he say "any plan" on Oct 9th?

Was the Senate bill a plan?

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Uncle Joe

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Wed Dec-30-09 04:54 PM
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5. Except this paragraph seems like a total repudiation of his earlier quote in regards

to his steadfast commitment to only support a bill with a public option.

<snip>

"What he meant to say, Burris later explained, was that he wouldn't support a bill unless he believed it would control health care costs, promote competition among insurance companies and hold providers accountable. Oh."

<snip>

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Dr.Phool

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Wed Dec-30-09 05:16 PM
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6. Last night I was watching a PBS show I tivo'ed on Oct. 26th.

It was an "American Experience" show on the 1929 stock market crash.

At the end of the show, it was still recording the PBS news headlines and stories from the day.

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that any bill coming out of the Senate WILL HAVE A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION".

Just shook my head. And went to bed.

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natrat

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Wed Dec-30-09 06:24 PM
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7. alot of head shaking these last 10 years

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Moosepoop

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Wed Dec-30-09 06:31 PM
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8. "There's no public option in that bill, and it's a good thing."

"There's no public option in that bill, and it's a good thing."

WTF??? That's a line from the Chicago Tribune's editorial. Are they pushing the GOP agenda, or what??

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Daveparts still

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Wed Dec-30-09 08:23 PM
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9. The Tribune and the GOP

birds of a feather.

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tom_paine

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Thu Dec-31-09 01:02 PM
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10. Thanks to modern advertising and PR, you CAN now fool all of the people all of the time.

Who would have guessed?

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