Biden: Obama health plan to be bold, contentious

[Zomby Woof]

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the Obama administration is fiercely determined to get a health care overhaul, although he conceded it likely won't happen without "an awful lot of screaming and hollering."

Appearing at a Brookings Institution gathering to talk up the employment dividends of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan, Biden said it will be difficult to find a consensus on remaking the system. But he also predicted that "we're going to get something substantial" and said he believes "we're going to get there."

Biden spoke as President Barack Obama continued a pre-Labor Day rest at Camp David. Obama is shifting his push for health care changes into high gear next week with a State of the Union-style address to a joint meeting of Congress.

The vice president suggested Obama will tell Congress and the American people precisely what he thinks must be included in the package that the White House is pressing lawmakers to approve this fall.


More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_care_overhaul_41

[DURHAM D]

1. The headline vastly overstates Biden's comments.

I wonder why that is?

:sarcasm:

[Zomby Woof]

2. It was Asshole Charles Babington who wrote the piece

The worst POS in the AP stable.

[DrToast]

3. He also lies about the deficit

Nonpartisan budget officials have said Obama's proposals could increase the federal deficit by about $1 trillion over the next decade.

Bullshit. How many times has Obama said we must pay for it?