Reply #55: That excuse, regarding a filibuster

[sabrina 1]

was just that, another excuse.

As for the quote it is definitely NOT out of context. It is exactly what he said in opposition to Hillary Clinton's ideas about mandates, and John McCain's throughout the campaign. He said it more than once and left no doubt where he stood on the issue. That was the one difference between him and Hillary that swayed many people, me included, to his side. Otherwise there wasn't much difference between them.

He also stated in another debate that the public didn't know the awful truth about Hillary's support for mandates. That lost her a lot of support. She could not defend supporting such a clearly Republican idea. Nor can he now.

You may as well drop the Republican excuse. They were never needed which was revealed completely, just as we suspected, at the end. Each excuse was debunked as it got closer to the end. 'We can't do reconciliation' 'we can't get the votes' 'no, we can't'! But they were able to get Republican ideas into the bill. Strange that considering the oppostion to those ideas, and the fact that they had a majority. We're supposed to believe that the minority party, with their unpopular ideas were ever a threat to a PO IF Democrats had wanted it. Please, we were not born yesterday.

They could have done it, but there is enough evidence available now that was suspected was in fact true. The Insurance Industry were assured there would not be a PO and there wasn't. We were outbid, we don't have the money to compete in the very system Obama was supposed to change.

He is now a part of it ~ maybe he always was.