Shocker: The GOP Not Impressed With Obama’s Health Care Plan

Boehner preserves his unblemished record of failing to solve any of the Nation’s problems………….

While “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” have supposedly rejected the prez’s proposals, the American House and American Senate have already passed separate bills. Not surprising that the GOPers would like you to forget that vis-a-vis “starting all over.”

Poll after poll shows that the American people support the proposed health care reforms when the are informed of what is actually in them.
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http://www.newsweek.com/media/84/1001_ftop_v2.pdf

Seems that “GOP Initiatives” thing is actually rather nice. It’s Obama saying “See, they contributed this, this and this” to the bill. The previous administration wasn’t so generous to the opposition party.

It wouldn’t matter if Obama had unleashed a Canada single-payer plan on the health care debate. Republican cannot afford to skip Thursday’s event. It would mean the president sitting in a room with empty chairs meant for the GOP and publicly scolding them for walking away. Cannot have that happen.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

It’s apparently too freakin’ complicated for Katie, Brian and Diane to explain in two minutes.

Gotta say, I never understood the value of Obama’s past as a “community organizer” until this classic move. It’s like neighborhood association style politics on a much bigger scale.

Republican law makers don’t like Obama plan!
And in other news the sun came up today.

“Indeed, Republicans have good reason to be frustrated right now… ”

Well Kate I’m glad you have the big picture in view. This statement will stand the test of history in ten years when the wheels fall off of… oh, I dunno… everything! The fact that the Republicans are worried about losing 48 hours of news cycle strides to the front of the list of problems Americans… indeed all the world’s people… face in these dark times.

Go ahead, ask me “how I feel” about Tiger Woods.

Yeah I think that some people might also refer to it as consensus building. The White House needs to make it clear at every available opportunity that the plan they’ve posted is
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1) a conversation opener
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and
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2) includes Republican ideas
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The website touting the Republican ideas that are in the plan is a good start. Repeatedly letting everyone know that the plan they’ve posted is a starting point will prevent the Republicans from painting the summit as a show because the White house already has the plan completed. Each side of every negotiation has to have a starting point and the White House has made clear what theirs is. If the Republicans show up without something similar then it shows that they’re not interested in participating or at the very best they’re just not that concerned with the state of health care in this country.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant for self interested politicians. The more information that’s out there, the more of this that is done in front of the public, the more likely we are to get something useful out of health care reform.

It is soooo frustrating to Republicans when the Demosratic majority acts so… majoritish. It certainly must be surprising to the GOP.

DemoCratic, that is. Yeesh…

LOL

Alright now!

I know, flaunting their more votes and stuff as if they run the place.

I’d like to celebrate, but the other shoe still needs to drop: what’s popularly bad with this proposal? And when Republicans find those points, what is the administration’s response?

Seriously. I bet Boehner’s office wrote their response to this two weeks ago.

I guess the R’s have a good reason to be frustrated but the White House and the Dems did too back in August when the R’s and their slimy operatives were arming hostile wing nuts with fictitious information about death panels and fear mongering with socialized medicine horror stories.
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That the R’s can’t come up with a cogent and factual reason for opposing health care reform is all you need to know about their opposition. They’ve been having such success with stonewalling, misinformation, and generally criticizing without offering any semblance of their own plan that I can understand why they might be feeling caught off guard. Their bluffs are getting called. They need to show up prepared on Thursday or the whole thing will be an embarrassment for them. It’ll be enlightening for the public.

Commenters:
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This is the best roundup I’ve seen so far of Obama’s new proposal: link to The Wonk Room
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Duncan Black thinks it’s a decent write up, too (God I hate wading through the WhiteHouse.gov sales pitch-speak to get to actual descriptions of what the proposals are!), but gets the call right on what the proposals mean:

It seems to be a bit better than the Senate bill, though the state-based exchanges are probably the biggest disappointment, aside from the expected disappointments such as no public option and the fact that it is, of course, still a stupid Rube Goldberg bill.

“Indeed, Republicans have good reason to be frustrated right now. They are struggling to gain equal footing with Obama leading up to Thursday’s summit. For example, reporters will spend today sending readers to the White House web site to read the Obama health care plan. On the page, under a tab called “Republican Ideas,” the Administration has listed not GOP initiatives that will be presented on Thursday, but rather GOP initiatives already integrated into the House and Senate bills and the White House plan.”
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Katie- You have to help me with what you wrote because it seems to me reading it that the frustration is someone else’s fault and the GOP initiatives for Thursday exist some place in some form, but not on the White House’s web site. And apparently no place you can link to or scanned and pdf for us.

It might also be helpful if someone other than the commentariate pointed out that JOHN BOEHNER IS LYING! (Three in one sentence, in fact).

I wish Democrats would start saying “majority rules” and “up or down vote” over and over like it was a nervous tick.

Me too. We might get our wish:
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Communications director Dan Pfeiffer framed the 11-page plan as what Obama will bring to the table at the health care summit Thursday, calling it “the opening bid for the health meeting.”
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“The president expects and believes the American people deserve an up or down vote on health care reform,” Pfeiffer said, calling the potential of a blockage from Republicans an “extraordinary step of filibustering health care reform.”

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/senate-bill-used-as-framework-of-white-house-health-care-plan.php?ref=fpa

Add a .50 tax to every fast food order which exceeds 500 total calories. With the millions of those sold every day in America, that would help illuminate the issue, discourage the consumption a little, and toss billions of dollars into the kitty to finance health reform — saw a cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth

…the Administration has listed not GOP initiatives that will be presented on Thursday…

Yes, the GOP ‘miracle’ plan that no one seems to know anything about, will just come out of nowhere.

linkee no workee

I think this is the link SZ intended:
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http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/category/raa/

Show me the poll that asks the question do you support this if your premiums continue to rise and your taxes will go up?

Want to guess the result? Every question is phrased so that only costs, taxes and fines are paid by somebody other than the poll respondent.

It’s not complicated to explain but Entitlement Cheerleaders would not like the result.,

“toss billions of dollars into the kitty to finance health reform”

Yes put that along side the money form the tobacco suits and you would have enough money. Dam the states spent the money on everything but health care didn’t they?

If a public company accepted money used it in a similar fashion the Officers would be doing jail time.

Not just “out of nowhere”, grape.
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I forecast that it wil have a deep brownish color, a certain luster, and an unmistakeable bouquet about it…

Thanks for your help, I’m a dolt today.

thx kevin
stuart: Cool article.