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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:03 PM Original message |
BREAKING: Obama will support the public option if Reid will |
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TCJ70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well then there goes any hope of a public option! |
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thotzRthingz (585 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
48. Well I can understand the cynicism, but as I've said to others (online & offline)... |
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VMI Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. Jesus, what a wimp. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. It's just stunning, isn't it? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:44 AM Response to Reply #17 |
33. it's sounds more like a schoolyard and 12 year old boys- "I will if you will". |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:46 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. So if we "double dog dare" him, he'll do it for sure!!! |
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Suji to Seoul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:30 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. Democrat and wimp are synonoms. It's like they are both afraid and ashamed to lead. |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
53. Yeah, way to LEAD. |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
61. Okay, let's BOTH do it on three! |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 11:43 PM Response to Reply #61 |
67. Okay! Ready! Set! Go! |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
62. He didn't sound like a wimp during his speech in Colorado |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 11:46 PM Response to Reply #62 |
68. A "quirk" about biparisanship? How about a DELUSIONAL COMPULSION for bipartisanship? |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sounds like leadership to me. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. Wet paper bag + warm jello = ??? |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. So much for that, then. n/t |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Well... Reid Had Better, kpete... Check This Out !!! |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
52. Reid has been in favor of the public option all along |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 11:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
70. Also look at the current poll results on the issue |
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DaveinJapan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. The President should try reverse psychology. |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
8. Well... if the guy who will be dragged into it, gets dragged into it |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. I can hear that conversation now: "I double blue dog dare you!" |
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indy legend (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:17 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'd give you a big LOL if that weren't so sadly true. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Neither has the nerve to jump straight to the triple dog dare. Sad. nt |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:46 AM Response to Reply #9 |
35. GMTA. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. Obama to Reid: "You first." Reid to Obama: "No, YOU first." O: "No, you." R: "No, YOU." nt |
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Skip Intro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
20. It's embarrassing. And sad. And tragic. Hell, if we're not gonna use our majority, wtf good is it? |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 01:12 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. WHAT? We have a majority? No way! nt |
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ctaylors6 (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
82. I wouldn't be surprised if that's an exact transcript |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm bothered by the fact that Durbin isn't backing public option. |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Just For You... |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:37 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Reid would vote for it too if there were 49 other votes. They aren't the problem. |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-18-10 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. Sen Reid has to |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. we're fucked if he's relying upon reid's leadership |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:30 AM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Much worse off than I thought..... |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
54. I'm not sure why anyone would think that |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
19. Fucking wimp. nt |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
22. Is this a true story? He's refusing to stand up for himself? nt |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
23. Political weasels have a million ways to pretend they support something |
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WVRICK13 (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 06:18 AM Response to Original message |
25. Good Luck With That |
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deacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
26. I see it as it's always been about Reid. This could have been a done deal a long time ago. n/t |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
27. 'I will if you will. No, I will if you will. I said it first. No I said it first.' Embarrassing. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
28. I know you are, but what am I? No, YOU are. No, YOU are. No tags back. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
29. What courage |
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deacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
31. He doesn't write the bill. Reid is the problem, Obama would sign for a public option in a second. n/ |
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stillwaiting (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:44 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. They are both the problem and have both been a problem over the past year. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:19 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. White Houses DO write bills and have senators introduce them. Sen. Robert Wagner did for FDR. nt |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:53 PM Response to Reply #31 |
55. Reid put 2 different public options in the bill that, eventually, passed |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
60. Reid wrote a public option into the Senate bill 2 different times |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
36. Who is working for who here.. |
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Shining Jack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #36 |
49. I do fucking think so. n/t |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
37. No, YOU'RE ugly. No YOU'RE ugly. I said it first. Did not. Did too. |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
38. I see a few have some courage. |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
40. This is just more of the.. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
41. I saw it first. Did not. Did too. Did not. Did too. You first. No you first. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. LOL you are cracking me up |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. :) |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
44. Another dog and pony show. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
45. And I suppose if Reid were to jump off a bridge... n/t |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
46. Grasping at straws - when Obama says he will support it then you can believe it |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
47. Open Medicare for all of the American People and be done with it. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
50. "Change you can believe it" |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
51. How 'bout he shows some leadership himself and LEADS and gets people to follow him? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #51 |
57. Or, how about including a PO in the bill he is proposing and plans to post online? |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
56. He still thinks like a junior Senator and not like the President n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
58. Well..maybe..if Uncle Harry says it's OK..and the conditions are right. Such leadership! |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
59. Great. Call me when you PASS the fucking thing. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #59 |
63. that about sums it up. |
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
64. Kicking |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
65. Breaking......It's dead. |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 11:35 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. It lives again! |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 11:47 PM Response to Reply #66 |
69. Schrödinger's cat -it's both alive and dead! |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
71. After you. No, after YOU! No, I insist. You first. YOU first. I called. Did not. Did too. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
72. LOL |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 01:16 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. wait |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
74. Deleted message |
AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
75. Harry Reid has no backbone. How in the hell did the Democrats elect him to that position? nt |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
76. Come on Obama, stand for something -- MEDICARE FOR ALL ... |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
77. yes, throw the responsibility onto one other person |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
78. shouldn't it be "Reid will support the public option if Obama will" |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
79. What a leader!!! |
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invictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
80. If Reid opposes the public option, he should be replaced. |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
81. What Leadership. |
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