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Date Posted: 06:33:52 07/14/09 Tue
Author: Jeffman
Subject: Re: The Rebublican plan to destroy Medicare
In reply to: Shirley 's message, "Re: The Rebublican plan to destroy Medicare" on 21:32:58 07/13/09 Mon

Its all 'feelgood' stuff. The Republicans have already been told by the Democratic leadership that they dont care what 'concerns' the Republicans have, that the Democrats are passing ALL of their agenda without them.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has “ordered Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) to stop chasing Republican votes on the health care reform bill.

There’s a powerful weapon buried in the $3.6 trillion 2010 budget agreement that Congress passed Wednesday without Republican support.

It’s a fast-track rule called reconciliation, and it means that the president can move his top priorities with only a simple majority of votes in the Senate, instead of the 60-vote threshold that has derailed countless reforms in the past.

What reconciliation says to a minority party is: “We’re going to do this without you, and we have a way of getting that done."

The Republicans had this to say about the process

“Legislation so far-reaching should be fully vetted and given appropriate time for debate, something the budget reconciliation process does not allow,” they wrote.





>It's the measures Republicans enacted when they had
>the majority that are crippling Medicare. Both the
>PDP and outsourcing Medicare to insurance companies
>that are draining it. Neither of those programs were
>funded in any way.
>
>As for no input from Republicans, then explain why
>Grassley and Baucus are working together to come up
>with a plan. Obama had both of them to the WH today.

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