Bfgrn
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Absolutely not.
Look at the way that he has worked to undermine the people of Arizona.
Now take Obamacare. Obama can see the polls, most show a majority do not want it, yet he pushed it through despite much opposition.
I truly believe Obama just wants to beat his opposition, instead of looking for common ground.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Republicans made a collective decision at the beginning of the health care debate. They were out to destroy the President of the United States with NO regard for We, the People:
"At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obamas Waterloo just as healthcare was Clintons in 1994.
This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.
Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romneys Massachusetts plan. It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican counter-proposals to Clintoncare in 1993-1994.
Barack Obama badly wanted Republican votes for his plan. Could we have leveraged his desire to align the plan more closely with conservative views? To finance it without redistributive taxes on productive enterprise without weighing so heavily on small business without expanding Medicaid? Too late now. They are all the law."
David Frum - former economic speechwriter for George W. Bush