At meeting with Obama, GOP leaders were ‘unprepared’ to make any ‘concessions’ on health care.

So rethugs have nothing to offer except their obstruction to any ideas presented by the opposing party. They're earning the name, 'the party of 'no''.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/05/bipartisanship-health-care-gop/


At meeting with Obama, GOP leaders were ‘unprepared’ to make any ‘concessions’ on health care.

On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote in Politico that “health reform should be developed through a bipartisan process,” echoing the demands of Republicans who have complained about President Obama’s bipartisan outreach. Yet at a meeting with Obama last month — after the President offered some concessions on health reform — Time’s Karen Tumulty reports that GOP lawmakers refused to compromise at all:



As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, the GOP’s National Council — a recent effort to “rebrand” the party — offered no new ideas on health care at a retreat this weekend, instead attacking a “government takeover” of health care.

Schumer wants the public option to be just as expensive to subscribers as private insurance, why should the Republicans make any concessions?

Not Republicans.

todays republican party...

"Whatever it is? I'm against it." ~Groucho Marx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0

keeping this in mind, makes the republicans easy marks/to predict...

Why the fuck do we need concessions? All we need are 50 fucking votes!!!!

Oh, that's right, they don't have any.

I think it's necessary to know they don't have any. How can they complain if they have no better ideas?

Well, they can, but I hope every last American knows they offer nothing to this discussion.

It shows that the President tried. They were pretty dumb to turn their back on tort reform. This is something that they've wanted for some time and an issue that has to be settled before we proceed with health care reform. Maybe they don't want to be seen as having anything to do with this legislation. The problem is since they don't have any ideas of their own it makes them look even weaker.

...even MORE clearly that they don't believe their own talking points - Obama offers them the curb on malpractice awards they SAY they want, and they won't take it.
Set that next to their doing NOTHING on illegal immigration or abortion while they were in power, plus their MASSIVE expansion of government during that same period putting the lie to their cries of fiscal responsibility, and you have a party that believes in NOTHING.

Then you put that right out there for everybody to look at.

excellent points. :)

Their plan is to whine and complain and bitch so much that people will put them in power just to shut them up. Don't laugh it worked before during the Clinton years.