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Ardent15 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 06:38 PM
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If the GOP really had an alternative plan to health care....
...why didn't they work on it when they had control of Congress for 12 years?


Oh, that's right, they didn't have one.
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 06:39 PM
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1. But they have "ideas" now. They said so. n/t
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 06:40 PM
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2. They were too busy getting rid of illegal aliens...
And repealing Roe vs Wade... oh, wait...
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 06:49 PM
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3. But they do have one. It's a blank sheet of paper
And I advocate Obama including it among the other thousands of pages that have words on them.

How could they complain then?
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 06:50 PM
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4. They did have one and that is what the Democrats have passed in the Senate
:shrug: They developed it in 1994 to combat Clinton's Health Care Reform Bill. What we have now is even more Conservative than that one was...
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zipplewrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-04-10 07:50 PM
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5. And Obama said as much
He practically bragged to the GOP that he was passing 15 year old health care ideas of Dole and Baker. Yup, that's the kind of change everyone hoped for.
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