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Home Front: Politix
WH official: Feb. 25 health care meeting to be televised
2010-02-10
Promises promises. So the regime administration is starting to finally crack. Funny how he went in with the right idea to televise every second of these debates, but his brain stopped working the second he took office.
President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.

Coverage details were not complete, but the official said the White House expected "the whole thing to be live."
Wow. One whole day of HC takeover debates. Which they are going to try to blow off the second the Trunks leave the room and they continue the meeting behind closed doors the next day.
The half-day meeting is an attempt by the Obama administration to rescue health care legislation, a top domestic priority for the president. Televising it also would help fulfill a campaign promise by Obama that health care negotiations would be broadcast live.

On Tuesday, Obama will meet with Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate for bipartisan talks that the president promised in his State of the Union address last month. Tuesday's meeting now will help prepare for the February 25 health care talks.

Republican leaders in Congress said they would welcome an opportunity to take part in drafting health care legislation, but they repeated their past calls for Obama and Democratic leaders to throw out separate health care bills already passed by the House and Senate in order to start over in a bipartisan effort.
Posted by:gorb

#7  We'll do this during the day when most working stiffs are hard at work and will have to see it on the evening news - after the editors have a chance to make the Republicans look as stupid as possible...

And all this is crap unless the congresscritters and public are allowed to read (in its entirety) and think about the final bill before the vote. Which to me means 1 day for each 100 pages.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2010-02-10 14:25  

#6  Because I just don't see enough President on the boob tube.
Posted by: Perfesser   2010-02-10 13:08  

#5  Given the limited time, I don't know if it would be wise to talk about the Dem plan. We already know everything about it. It's the Dems who need to listen to the Republicans long and hard, so it should be a one-sided conversation, with the Dems only asking truly information-oriented questions.
Posted by: gorb   2010-02-10 11:46  

#4  DG is right. Rahm thinks he's set a win-win trap for the trunks, but only if they appear obstructionist and uncooperative. All they have to do is show up and force the donks to sell their plan to the American people. They have an alternative and they should present it, but only as the kick off to the fall campaign.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-02-10 11:18  

#3  All the Pubs need to do is show up, be cordial, and play it low key. Bottom line, even when the Democrats had a supra majority in the Senate they still couldnÂ’t pass a final bill. Unless the House Dems go against their Union masters and swallow the Senate version this bad boy is DOA.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2010-02-10 10:23  

#2  During the televised meeting the Pubs need to full court press the Obama and the Dems to make public all government health care take over meetings and documents. Ask Obama why it good to televise this meeting but not make public the secret meetings where all the real decisions are made.
Posted by: ed   2010-02-10 08:56  

#1  Of course, if it's televised that means it will be all about grandstanding and nothing of substance will come of it.
Posted by: Spot   2010-02-10 08:48  

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