House Leader Boehner Announces GOP Dream Team For Tomorrow's Health Care Summit …Update: Sen. Snowe Turns Down Invite
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 8:02 PM
Here’s a pep talk for Team Freedom on the eve of the Obamacare summit–
Ronald Reagan speaks out against socialized medicine:
House Republican Leader John Boehner announced his starting lineup for tomorrow’s nationalized health care summit in Washington DC. It’s a strong team.
The Hill reported:
The list includes House GOP leaders, ranking members of key committees and lawmakers who have been outspoken against the Democrats’ healthcare bill throughout much of the debate:
* Republican Leader John Boehner
* Republican Whip Eric Cantor (Va.)
* Energy and Commerce Committee ranking Republican Joe Barton (Texas)
* Ways and Means Committee ranking Republican Dave Camp (Mich.)
* Education and Labor Committee ranking Republican John Kline (Minn.)
* Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), an Energy and Commerce member
* Rep. Charles Boustany Jr. (R-La.) — a heart surgeon who delivered the GOP’s rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s address on healthcare last year.
* Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), a lawmaker who was close with Obama during their time in the Illinois state Senate.
* Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), a Republican policy bona fide and ranking member of the Budget Committee.Boehner said this afternoon that Republicans plan use the summit to “point out what we believe the flaws are” in the president’s plan.”
Republicans also have a “truth squad” of Representatives who are doctors standing by to fact-check the democrat’s awful plan.
The Politico reported today that Obama’s latest plan won’t cut costs.
UPDATE: Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) turned down the invite.
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Jo commented:
Before the mid-term elections, the Democraps can pass healthcare w/out the Republicans — they have the votes already. They just want to look like they had a debate so history will not skew them to look like dictator fascists. They have the votes, and Bozo needs a legacy, because economically he is a failure. Spiritually he is a failure. Culturally he is a failure, Institutionally wise, he is a failure. In general, Bozo is a total failure.
Ginger commented:
Take the lying fraud president down for the liar he is!
hermie commented:
Snowe doesn’t want to participate?
Gee, I thought she always wanted to do things that were ‘historic’. Or maybe she knows she would just look like a fool besides Republicans who know how to articulate their opposition.
Willy commented:
I wish reps would decline this meeting and leave obama and the dems flapping in the breeze on socialized healthcare.
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SteveCan commented:
Can you say “photo op”?
bitterclinger commented:
Damn. The dream team is missing Thaddeus McCotter.
ar05075 commented:
Good, replace Snowe with Sen. Demint.
Chris Vehr commented:
Rush is right. It’s a trap!
Willy commented:
obamacare is withering on the vine. I sure as hell hope reps aren’t going to give him what he needs to revive it.
Steve commented:
Ryan has also declined.
Robert commented:
They should consider putting Sen. Judd Gregg in that group.
MaxTruth commented:
Seems to be a missing doctor. Wonder why Dr. Paul is not on the truth squad?
William commented:
I wish it was just Paul Ryan. The boy is so over-educated on the issue it’d just be cute to watch him ramble while Obama stutters.
Sojourner commented:
Jim, will the meeting be streamed on GP tomorrow?
newsjunkie_ky commented:
They need to take Joe Wilson and let him say, ‘you lie’ every time the lying liar obama speaks.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Meeting tomorrow to fix our “broken” health care system…
If only we could be more like Canada. Funny that Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams recently chose the US [Florida] for his heart surgery:
http://the-raw-deal.com/2010/02/24/this-is-my-heart-its-my-health-its-my-choice/
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
StrangernFiction commented:
This is the party of hope and change? Damn these Dems have been in DC a LONG time:
http://yousayobamanationisayabomination.blogspot.com/2010/02/party-of-hope-and-change-set-to-bust.html
ahem commented:
I think they’re walking into a trap.
They think they can control the situation, but they can’t. My evidence is Bill Whittle’s PJM interview with Cantor at CPAC last week. Cantor avoided answering Bill’s question about being led into a trap by agreeing to attend.Cantor puffed on like McCain at his windiest. He’s out of his league and he’s going to blow it. He’s too arrogant and not ruthless enough.The Repubs should have refused to attend. They can’t change the game and this will just make them look weak. They’re taking the momentum they got from Brown and throwing it away.
sybilll commented:
Rep. Paul Ryan is on the list. Was that an addendum added later? I’ve been screaming that we need him. DeMint would be a plus, too. But, they have Schumer on their side, so he needs no counterpoint, vapous asshat that he is. And, word is, only c-span3 is carrying it live. So, 90% of America will see none of this dog and pony show. Really, how many people will watch a live stream online?
sandy commented:
The Republicans are organized. Why did I fear that when attacked the Republicans would have that deer in the headlights look.
sandy commented:
We have the greatest evidence in the world. This bill is unpopular with the American People because it costs too much and will force millions of us away from our current Health Insurance.
Obama has no credibility because he’s governing against the will of the people. The fact that he is now comfortable with a Nuclear Option with the same fervor as he had when he was totally against the concept as a Senator this video of this has one viral and makes him seem like a used care salesman who is forcing a lemon down our throats.
Kenny Solomon commented:
Any Republican going to this loony bin tomorrow needs to be sent packin’……. period.
Make the Democrats own this monstrosity lock stock and barrel, so when the merde encounters the ventilateur and people finally and fully wake up, the “R’s” won’t be in the way of what’s gonna happen the first time someone’s grandparents or parents are denied care and pass due to The Obama administration.
sandy commented:
This from the Times on Line in Britain. It is shocking but how long would it take before it happens here.
Patients were routinely neglected or left “sobbing and humiliated” by staff at an NHS trust where at least 400 deaths have been linked to appalling care.
An independent inquiry found that managers at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust stopped providing safe care because they were preoccupied with government targets and cutting costs.
Staff shortages at Stafford Hospital meant that patients went unwashed for weeks, were left without food or drink and were even unable to get to the lavatory. Some lay in soiled sheets that relatives had to take home to wash, others developed infections or had falls, occasionally fatal. Many staff did their best but the attitude of some nurses “left a lot to be desired”.
jerryl commented:
personally i wish they bturnned it down because they dont have any reps going with any spine id say let demint backman and joe wilson go
pm commented:
If I read the link re Snowe correctly, she turned down a *White House* invite to the summit, saying the team had already been selected by the GOP.
Maybe BO want her there as a pal and reliable turncoat.
TheScribbler commented:
All childish games that are getting way old way too quickly. They are still treating the American people as if we are stupid and even worse they think we have very short memories.
It all boils down to them not having the 60 votes to pass it the first time. So they go and announce that jobs are now the priority. While at the same time they start spouting that the Republicans would never work with them, didn’t have anything to bring to the table on healthcare, etc. Thinking people would forget that they did all of this garbage behind closed doors to begin with.
Then they decided they were going to something historic even if it kills Democrat careers all around them. So we get talk of them passing it with just 51 votes, like it or not. So why bother with a summit? It’s just a photo op for the stupid who will watch and say, “See Obama is trying to be bipartisan.
Personally, the whole thing is laughable. We have an inexperienced, inept poser running the show and his peons are way out of their pay grades.
If Republican’s don’t get to actually have any input in the “summit” and I use the word very loosely. Then they need to get up and walk out. Make a statement. Lord knows that the American people would if they had the chance!
Bob commented:
Obama will talk and talk and talk and talk and talk, then they will shut the camera’s off just when the republicans start talking.
Militant Conservative commented:
Just politics, I think the Dem’s are seriously floundering and this is all they can now muster is a photo op. It’s SOMETHING right? Keep the pressure up WE the people are starting to win. Powder is dry.
Neo commented:
The five major problems with the current plan:
1) the general sense that it is meant to undermine the insurance system rather than bolster it.
2) the major disruptions of plan changes (that Obama promised wouldn’t be the case).
3) No tort reform
4) use of the Medicare money (that really doesn’t exist) to pay for it
5) the iron clad use of the Medical Advisory board to reduce cost by denying procedures (although this is intentionally left vague)
vs
the outlying years will bankrupt the country.
This paradox in 5), pointed to by Palin, has been brushed over intentionally. It’s sort of equivalent to giving your power of attoney to a poor relative who inherits more money if you die faster.
In a short phrase, it’s too vague even with the thousands of pages in the legislation.
Greg commented:
I think sen Snowe gets an attagirl for turning down the White House attempt to invite her outside the Republican plan