Whaaa! Promised one-on-one time with Obama hard to come by for GOP

[babylonsister]

:cry:


Promised one-on-one time with Obama hard to come by for GOP
By Molly K. Hooper - 09/20/09 12:16 PM ET


House Republicans are feeling no love from President Barack Obama in the debate over healthcare – and Democrats want them to quit complaining.

The White House has refused to schedule meetings with Obama and a handful of GOP lawmakers who RSVP’d to his blanket invitation to sit down one-on-one with any member of Congress to discuss his landmark legislation.

Outspoken Democratic Rep. Barney Frank (Mass.) sees nothing wrong with the White House disregard for his GOP colleagues, saying they have no intention of supporting any healthcare bill offered by the president.

“They are irredeemably opposed, ideologically dug in; they’ve already made it clear that they have no interest in this,” Frank said.

For its part, the White House is quick to point out that throughout this process the president has met and spoken with key Republicans to get their ideas and input, including, among others, GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Bob Bennett (Utah).

In fact, Bennett had an audience with the president last week to discuss a bill that he co-sponsored with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.).

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A top House Democrat said that the president doesn’t have time to sit down with 535 members of Congress, despite his promise to do so – especially with the 178-strong GOP conference that he believes will ultimately oppose whatever plan Democrats put forward.

Hawaii’s liberal Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie said that the Republicans need to grow up.

“Open door doesn’t mean you walk through it. What it means is: send the ideas up to him – that’s what I’m doing. Do you hear me complaining?” Abercrombie told The Hill on Thursday afternoon.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/59507-promised-one-on-one-time-with-obama-hard-to-come-by

[SpiralHawk]

1. "We support massive profits for health-care corps. Smirk." - Republicons

[Cha]

2. PObama doesn't have any valuble time to waste on whinyass

republicons.

"Hawaii’s liberal Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie said that the Republicans need to grow up.

“Open door doesn’t mean you walk through it. What it means is: send the ideas up to him – that’s what I’m doing. Do you hear me complaining?” Abercrombie told The Hill on Thursday afternoon."

That's my future Rep or Gov if he's running for Gov of Hawai'i in 2010~


Wow, the comments below are all from brainwashed assholes.

[DCKit]

9. That's exactly the point. They want to waste his time.

Every minute they tie him up with utter B.S. is another minute he's not working on other things they'll have to waste far more of their own time in opposing.

[jwirr]

3. Aren't many of these pugs the same bunch who would not even let

Democrats participate in the process of governing for much of the last terms 8 years?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. Sennsenbrunner cut the mikes of Democrats who tried to speak. For some reason, the M$M

has collective amnesia when it comes to Repukes and how ruthless they were for the last 8 years.

And for the record, the Repugs in the Senate resorted to Reconciliation 5 times to ram through their tax cuts for the wealthy. And here you have Mitch Mc"Chinless" threatening the Dems if they invoke Reconciliation?

I wish the Democrats had collective balls and just ram everything they want through using the Reconciliation procedure. FUCK THE REPUBLICANS!!!

I wish the M$M didn't act as though Dems aren't doing enough to reach bipartisan consensus.

[babylonsister]

7. Do you remember when the rethugs shoved Conyers, et al.,

into a small basement conference room for a public hearing, RE: Downing Street Minutes? I have no respect for these clowns.

http://www.mindspace.org/liberation-news-service/archives/001339.html

“In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe,” Milbank wrote. “They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole think look official.”

And the insults – especially aimed at Rep. Conyers – just kept on coming…

Washington Post editors – having already dismissed the leaked British government documents about the Iraq War as boring, irrelevant news – are now turning to the tried-and-true tactic for silencing any remaining dissent, consigning those who won’t go along to the political loony bin.

Those of us who have covered Washington for years have seen the pattern before. A group without sufficient inside-the-Beltway clout tries to draw attention to a scandal that the Post and other prestigious news arbiters have missed or gotten wrong. After ignoring the grievances for a while – and sensing that the complainers have no real muscle – the news arbiters start heaping on the abuse…

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

12. Yes. Conyers was the ranking chairman at the time. Sennsenbrenner cut the Dems' mike, so

Conyers had to hold meetings in the basement. He wasn't even allowed to be addressed as "Mr Chairman". But Conyers also held hearings on the deregulation of the mainstream media and the impact on the media in general.

Did the so-called LIBRUL media cover these "hearings" at all? NO!

[Captain Hilts]

4. Again, they'll find 'sympathy' between 'shit' and 'syphllis' in the dictionary. nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. Where better in that context. Incidentally, are you sure that sig line of yours

wasn't something Forrest Gump said?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Hell yea!

You show them, Mr. President!

K&R

[HopeOverFear]

10. I think only Nelson can say it best...

[Peacetrain]

11. I could not even spare a square.. for the republicans.. what a bunch

of whiners.