Health care summit: the morning after

Cesca
Given an opportunity to get serious, the Republicans made with the same buffoonery and childish gimp speak they've employed for a year now.

So it looks like the president and the Democrats will move forward without them. Thank effing goodness.

The endless cavalcade of "government takeover" Luntz-speak topped with a healthy dose of lying about CBO reports made them look like the buffoons they are. This time on national television for seven and a half hours. One of the GOP talking points that I found most offensive was the repeatedly misleading poll numbers. Americans hate this bill! Mumble grumble! Well, actually, when they're presented with the various individual provisions of the bills, healthcare reform is very popular.

Anyway, can we pass the damn bill now?

TPM
The White House has given Congressional leaders the all-clear to move ahead on health care reform, with both the House and Senate aiming to pass final legislation by April.

A top aide to House Democratic leadership told TPMDC this morning that tension remains between the House and Senate as members in the lower chamber remain wary the Senate might not honor a promise to fix their bill through reconciliation.

Sullivan commenter
If these Tea Party people were serious about fiscal sanity, they would boo Ryan on sight for his vote for Medicare D. They would boo Cantor on sight. They would boo Boehner on sight. They would run primary challenges against all these people, and not let them forget the sins they committed against their country.

But the Tea Party movement is not serious. It is an act of collective amnesia, for Republican voters to convince themselves that everything bad that's going on is all Obama's fault, and everything was going great until he showed up and ruined us all.