Health Care
White House, Dems Demand “Up-Or-Down” As Health Care Talks Go Up, Down
The weekend after last Thursday’s landmark presidential health care summit saw the White House and congressional Democrats seeking to rapidly move ahead with a plan to pass health care legislation as Republican silence on a challenge to find compromise made it clear that the finished product will not be bipartisan in nature.
President Obama, White House […]
Health Care Summit In Rearview Mirror, President Hopeful For Compromise But Expecting - And Ready For - Progress Alone
President Obama put the finishing touches on his often grueling seven-and-a-half hour health care summit on Thursday by giving Republican a challenge that he hopes will produce a bipartisan health care bill, but warning that he and congressional Democrats are prepared to move forward alone if the minority party fails to compromise on their demands. […]
Question Time Tussle: Obama Says McCain Forgets That “The Election’s Over”
The ghosts of the 2008 presidential election were rekindled in the midst of 2010’s occasionally fractious health care reform summit as the current president and his last election foe ignited old campaign disagreements that temporarily turned Blair House into a presidential debate hall for an election decided well over one year ago.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, […]
White House, Speaker Pelosi Do Summit Pre-Game
The White House stressed that today’s bipartisan health care summit is important and not a “six-hour photo op” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released remarks she will deliver at the meeting that sets a high bar for any potential compromise on health care legislation with Republicans.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made the rounds of […]
Health Care Summit: What To Watch
The expectations for Thursday’s televised bipartisan health care summit cannot get any lower. What was at first hailed as a breakthrough to Washington gridlock when President Obama announced the event has devolved into a seemingly contrived political exercise, with the White House already having a health care blueprint they say will be put in place […]
Participants Spar Ahead Of Thursday’s Health Care Summit
(CBS)
If the beginning is a shadow of what is to come for President Obama’s hotly anticipated health care summit in Washington on Thursday, there is little chance that anything constructive or bipartisan comes out of the cross-party chat.
A day before the event kicks off at 10 AM sharp, both sides of the health care debate […]
Details Emerge For Blair House Health Care Showdown
While political posturing has only just begun over President Obama’s bipartisan health care summit this Thursday, the details of the event are beginning to be finalized, including the format of the discussion as well as the guest lists for both parties.
The White House has released selected information regarding the set-up of Thursday’s unprecedented televised event, […]
White House Pressures Republicans For Health Plan As GOP Swats At President’s “Non-Starter”
An intense fight to jockey for position is under way following Monday’s release of President Obama’s own blueprint for health care legislation and ahead of Thursday’s televised bipartisan meeting at the White House. Both sides of the debate are staking out the most politically advantageous positions on an issue that presents dangers for all involved.
After […]
My Turn: POTUS Pens Own Blueprint For “ObamaCare” Prior To Bipartisan Sit-Down
UPDATE: House GOP leader John Boehner slammed President Obama’s health care proposal in a statement on Monday, saying the “credibility of this week’s summit” has been “crippled,” and that Thursday’s scheduled meeting ” has all the makings of a Democratic infomercial.”
Boehner called the outline a “massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan […]
Bayh Leads A Third Way For Washington?
Retiring Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh penned an op-ed published on Sunday in the New York Times that attacks the “strident partisans” in Congress and lays out a path for a centrist platform that could lead to more support for a third-party movement in Washington and a potential independent future for Bayh himself.
Bayh takes aim at […]
