Following is a list of criticism of Democrats by Republicans that is included in the Washington Post's article about the GOP's strategy for tomorrow's health care summit:
- “The Republican summit strategy is twofold: to portray the Obama plan as radical and ruinously expensive”
- "'You will not see from us a 2,700-page comprehensive rewrite of one-sixth of our economy,' said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). 'We don't think that ought to be done.'"
- “Their goal is to present voters with a clear choice between a Democratic approach that seeks to expand the government role in health care, and the Republican aim of finding solutions in the private marketplace. 'There'll be no question as to where Republicans stand,' said House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.). 'It is with a much more common-sense, modest approach to health-care reform.'”
- “Senior Republican aides said the delegation would seek to portray the Obama health-care bill as a further threat to the record deficit and target specific parts of the Democratic proposal, including tax increases and Medicare cuts. Republicans also will be prepared to argue that Congress should be focused on the more urgent need for job creation rather than health-care reform.”
- "'We don't need a big comprehensive bill that turns 17 percent of the economy upside down and cuts Medicare and raises premiums and raises taxes and transfers big cost to states,' said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). 'We need to set reducing health-care costs as our goal and move step by step toward that goal to re-earn the trust of the American people.'"
And here are the Democratic responses to those criticisms the Post included:
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Finally, here are the criticisms of Republicans by Democrats that the Post included:
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