Enzi: If I Hadn't Been Involved, You Would Already Have National Health Care

This is all you really need to know about "bipartisanship" and motive. Does this sound like somebody who you would trust to negotiate a good bill on health care reform? -WB

Enzi: If I Hadn't Been Involved, You Would Already Have National Health Care


Speaking before 500 Wyomingites in Gillette last night, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) took flack from colleagues and voters for participating in bipartisan health care reform negotiations on the Senate Finance Committee...and quickly gave up the game.

"If I hadn't been involved in this process as long as I have and to the depth as I have, you would already have national health care," he said. "It's not where I get them to compromise, it's what I get them to leave out."

State Rep. Timothy Hallinan called for Enzi to ditch the so-called "Gang of Six" talks.

But that's not Enzi's philosophy. "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu," he said.

Despite Enzi's apparent belief that his chief role in the process is to slow things down, block national health care, and getting Democrats to drop key provisions so that Republicans don't get eaten, a number of key Democrats insist that health care reform legislation will be better if it comes out of the Finance Committee than if Democrats pass it on their own.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/enzi-if-i-hadnt-been-involved-in-this-process-you-would-already-have-national-health-care.php#more

That membership in this number would be those that have received millions from insurance companies

You dun rung the bell.

:grr: