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McConnell Announces Senate GOP-ers To Attend Health Care Summit
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced today which Senate Republicans will attend Thursday's bipartisan health care summit at the White House.
McConnell will attend with Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mike Enzi (R-WY), John McCain (R-AZ), Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John Barrasso (R-WY).
The Senate Democrats attending the meeting were also announced this week: Sens. Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Patty Murray, Max Baucus, Chris Dodd, Tom Harkin, Jay Rockefeller and Kent Conrad.
House leadership from both parties will also attend.
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wbgonne
February 23, 2010 2:14 PM
WHEW! What a relief!
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FreeRider
February 23, 2010 2:14 PM
McCain? If there was ANY doubt that the Repugs weren't serious, this settles it.
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wbgonne
February 23, 2010 2:17 PM in reply to FreeRider
The GOP should just send lobbyists from Humana and Wellpoint and cut out the middleman.
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FreeRider
February 23, 2010 2:25 PM in reply to wbgonne
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4 tablespoons canola oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 ripe avocados, peeled, pitted and diced
1 serrano chile, finely diced
1 small red onion finely diced
1 lime, juiced
1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves
Blue, yellow and white corn chips, as accompaniment
Heat the grill to high.
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Rick Jones
February 23, 2010 2:51 PM in reply to FreeRider
Anybody think McCain will get all mavericky?
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FreeRider
February 23, 2010 2:55 PM in reply to Rick Jones
He's not afraid to get all mavericky in there and ruffle feathers . . .
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Viva!America!
February 23, 2010 2:58 PM in reply to Rick Jones
He's running so far to the right its ridiculous. Get ready for this fart to compare it to Nazi Germany.
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AhTrini1
February 23, 2010 5:29 PM in reply to Rick Jones
Must see TV, that's why I took off Thursday.
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Michael A
February 23, 2010 3:22 PM in reply to FreeRider
And, every single one of the repukes on the list is not serious about healthcare reform. The potential serious repukes were left off the list. Cockburn? You have got to be kidding me.
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shortstop
February 24, 2010 9:33 AM in reply to FreeRider
What a useful guy to have on board. Knows nothing about either foreign or domestic policy, undeterred from constantly posturing on both.
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ohyeathatsright
February 23, 2010 3:09 PM
Eeeexcellent...
As soon as they step into the door in their grand entrance, the floor of the Blair House will drop out from under them and let them fall into the Blair Pit (unfortunately they removed the lions from this pit because it was considered an enhanced interrogation technique), forever trapping them and preventing them from showing up to the votes on healthcare!
Obama's trap is almost complete!
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FreeRider
February 23, 2010 4:02 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
LMAO!
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lousgirl84
February 23, 2010 4:44 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
I have a trap for your sorry ass!!!
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ohyeathatsright
February 23, 2010 5:19 PM in reply to lousgirl84
Are you coming on to me?
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igotthis
February 23, 2010 5:19 PM in reply to ohyeathatsright
LOL! Brilliant!
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shanefish
February 23, 2010 3:50 PM
OK, I have an idea. It might be unworkable, but how about universal preventative and catastrophic care? Let the insurance companies fight over accidental and elective coverage. Preventative care would not have the waiting lists like Canada because there could be an orderly scheduling of patients and would be far cheaper than trying to overhaul the entire system. Just an idea since the U.S. spends DOUBLE any other industrialized nation on health care, but isn't even ranked in the top 35 when it comes to the quality of that care. Pathetic and quite UN-AMERICAN!
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igotthis
February 23, 2010 5:38 PM in reply to shanefish
Good point, shanefish, but the Republican Senator who could defend such a proposal (Maine's Judd Greg) is not coming to the summit. A brilliant presentation of this idea by Republicans this Thursday could be the equalizer for them. However, they have always been vigorously opposed to any form of universal health care in this country. But now I am curious, thanks to you, to see if they or anyone else will bring it up.
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Ann Arbor
February 23, 2010 4:11 PM
Does Wyoming have some special well of health-care expertise? It will be over-represented at this summit by a factor of about 10.
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Michael A
February 23, 2010 4:17 PM in reply to Ann Arbor
Yep, experience in cashing insurance company checks. Those two are an easy buy. The population of Wyoming is only 544k people. That's nothing. Couple hundred k and you bought the seat. Pathetic.
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eztempo
February 23, 2010 4:38 PM
So Wyoming -- a state with as many people in it as my LA neighborhood! -- gets TWO SEATS at the table?
Must be nice to be a cowboy.
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AhTrini1
February 23, 2010 5:21 PM
WOW, great job, all the GOP ass-holes are appearing on television at the same time.
McConnell will attend with Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), [Lamar Alexander (R-TN)], Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mike Enzi (R-WY), John McCain (R-AZ), Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John Barrasso (R-WY).
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Nancy Irving
February 23, 2010 8:10 PM
These are their health care "experts"? During the 2000 presidential campaign McCain didn't even know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.
Pathetic.
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calbearinillinois
February 23, 2010 8:27 PM
AZ - 1/4
WY - 1/4
IA - 1/8
KY - 1/8
OK - 1/8
TN - 1/8
So this is what the GOP sees as national representation - no one from any state with significant population, and absolutely nothing for the moderate wing of the party unless you count (somehow) McCain. I think the plan is to throw Snowe, Collins, Gregg and anyone else they fear could vote for cloture (maybe even Scott Brown, if the MA poll numbers swing in favor of Obama) into a locked basement until this blows over.
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