the wingnuts are too stupid (0.00 / 0)

to understand that the gang of six is helping their cause. Grassley is getting the same kind of criticism in Iowa.

As time passes, it looks more like bipartisanship has been the White House cover for giving away the store to corporate interests. They probably didn't really care about having a conversation with Enzi any more than we do.

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by: desmoinesdem @ Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 18:36:02 PM UTC

Acrually (4.00 / 1)

If anybody is to blame from the gang of six it is Max Baucus.  A normal chair would have gotten a bill through Committee without involving Mike Enzi.

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by: David Kowalski @ Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 18:43:12 PM UTC

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yes, but the White House (4.00 / 1)

has been telling drug and insurance lobbyists to work out a deal with Baucus' committee.  

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by: desmoinesdem @ Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 19:21:31 PM UTC

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also, the White House doesn't mind (4.00 / 1)

that Baucus is bypassing Senator Rockefeller, who chairs the Finance Committee's subcommittee on health and should be very involved in these negotiations.

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by: desmoinesdem @ Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 19:23:02 PM UTC

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We need swimming lessons (0.00 / 0)

This event would seem to indicate the the shallower the water is that we paddle around in, the more certain we are to drown.

If intellectual prowess were only as big as a canoe paddle, these people would have trouble finding a splinter with which to pick their teeth.  

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by: hivanh @ Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 18:53:14 PM UTC

the wingnuts are so stupid (4.00 / 1)

that they are winning. the more they put these guys on the defensive the stronger the wingnuts get. It is the same strategy as the Chinese Cultural Revolution. You just use mobs to intimidate everyone. And it is working.

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by: AliceDem @ Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 19:47:18 PM UTC