President Obama gets credit for flushing out all the tools

[ProSense]

Tools like Lanny Davis: Time to make a deal

In last Saturday’s national radio address, President Barack Obama said he is ready to compromise with Republicans on healthcare but is not satisfied with doing nothing. “Let’s get this done,” he said.

At the healthcare summit last week, and again on “Meet the Press” this past Sunday, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain said he would support passing a bill this year as long as it was a “new” compromise, not one that merely tweaked the Democrats’ current proposal for comprehensive reform. It’s not too late to do this — even though President Obama has already apparently adopted several GOP ideas in his latest proposal.

Let’s take both men at their word. Here’s my specific proposal:

President Obama and Sen. McCain should meet — alone, not on C-SPAN — and try to reach a brand-new compromise agreement first.

In 2008, they ran against each other — and, with few exceptions, ran one of the most dignified and mutually respectful presidential campaigns in modern U.S. history. If each man can reach agreement on a compromise in private one-on-one talks, I believe Obama can persuade his undoubtedly unhappy liberal base that this is a first and meaningful step on a long journey to achieve reform; but this first step must be achieved this year, after all this time and effort, or there could be a real danger of losing both houses of Congress in November. Meanwhile, I believe McCain can persuade at least a significant number of the more public-spirited conservative Senate and House Republicans — and there were many who impressed me as such who spoke at the summit and at the president’s earlier appearance before the House GOP conference — to enact the legislation by 70 or more votes in the Senate and 275 or more votes in the House.

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"Davis is a supporter of single payer health care (*cough* bullshit *cough*)," but the tool is calling for holding up reform to make a deal with McCain?

Lanny, you're a tool. Actually, you're a fool if you were impressed by Republicans. It's reconciliation time: 51 votes.

[thunder rising]

1. no way .. the debate is televised so I can watch "5 plane" wander around the set like (forgive me)

a person suffering from dementia; and, I really want to hear "That one" again.

IOW: they already debated, the election was decided ... McCain lost. It's a Democracy that's all there is.

[AlinPA]

2. With Palin in the campaign, and the ugliness of the republicans on

President Obama's race, his religion and birthplace it may not have been the "most dignified and mutually respectful presidential campaigns in modern U.S. history".

[Enrique]

3. careful who you call a tool

suppose Obama hired him as his next chief of staff, then you'd have to defend him.

[ProSense]

4. Lanny is a tool

Rahm "the powerful" isn't going anywhere.

[freddie mertz]

5. But if Obama hired him tomorrow, we'd get a bunch of posts about how great he is...

From you.

I would bet the house on it.

[denimgirly]

6. As it stands the bill is actually more Republican than Democrat