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Obama: Yeah, There's A September Deadline For Finance Committee
In a yet to air interview, President Obama obliquely puts Senate Finance Committee Republicans on notice that, though their efforts at bipartisanship are appreciated, they'd better bear fruit soon.
"I am glad that in the Senate Finance Committee, there have been a couple of Republicans--Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe--who have been willing to negotiate with Democrats to try to produce a bill. But they haven't yet. And I think at some point, sometime in September, we're just going to have to make an assessment."
That won't please Enzi, who insists he's committed to no deadline whatsoever. But at least he can't say Democrats didn't warn him.
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"make an assessment"
This is a polite way of referring to the reconciliation option I take it?
August 5, 2009 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reconciliation is now coming into focus. Baucus admit your failures and hoax and you maybe you will be forgiven. Otherwise, Baucus you are a failure and the good people of MT will realize what a fraud you are!
August 5, 2009 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Misspelling "fiinance" in your headline? That's just embarrassing...
August 5, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe it's a Nintendo game where you use motion controls to role-play a stockbroker.
August 5, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Three questions need to be asked and filmed every time an ignorant republicking mob drowns a town hall meeting in meaningless noise...
1) Do you believe that President Obama was born in America?
2) Do you believe that President Obama is a Communist or Fascist?
3) Do you believe that President Obama is a racist that hates white people ?
Does anyone doubt that we can get this footage? Or its value?
August 5, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
4. Do you think Medicare and Social Security should be abolished?
August 6, 2009 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's going to "make an assessment" on the hides of these chumps back in the woodshed. The highway is littered with the corpses of those who underestimated Obama.
August 5, 2009 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I say we banish this committee to the island and move immediately to reconcilliation.
Wonder if Max Baucus is related to Jim Baucus. And Chuck Grassley is a dead ringer for Gilligan!
August 5, 2009 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink