Juan Williams explains that the Republicans "don't want to give anything to President Obama" on health care
August 23, 2009 10:36 am ET
From the August 23 broadcast of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday:
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Republican squirrels find ACORNs under their beds all of the time.
Bipartisan Health Care reform, which passes with a dozen Republican votes in the Senate and fifty in the House, is no reform at all. I want a bill which passes with Joe Biden casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate, and by ten votes in the House. THAT will be a truly Progressive reform bill.
I'm so sick of this "bipartisan" business. I spent years listening to Democrats whining that "if only we had a majority, we could do such great things!" Then I spent two years listening to Democrats whining "we don't have sixty votes in the Senate." I'm not spending any more time listening to Democrats whining that we need "Bipartisanship." I didn't donate money for "Bipartisanship," but for LEADERSHIP.
If the Democrats fail to enact serious health care reform, they needn't ask me for money again. Ever.
The question is this reform going to be toothless because Democrats are going to bend over for the Blue Dogs?
That is the question.
Personally I blame this on Obama's hands off approach. He should have been shepherding all the Democrats, and he should have spent more energy controlling the dialog. That's how LBJ passed Medicare- hands on and full involvement.
Man, I miss those kind of Democrats- the kind that knew what they wanted to get done, and knew how to get it done. Apparently, the species is extinct.