Are Republicans ready to deal with Democrats on health care?
Rep. Eric Cantor, the House of Representatives' number two Republican, plans to meet Thursday afternoon with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
Their attempt at finding common ground, after months of criticism of the other party's plans and motives, came as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday became the latest prominent Republican to urge a bipartisan effort.
In a statement, he urged everyone to "move forward and accomplish these vital goals for the American people."
His appeal follows that of former Bush administration Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who called Senate Finance Committee legislation, authored largely by Democrats, "another important step toward achieving the goal of health care reform."
And former Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist said he could vote for change.
The Finance Committee is expected to vote sometime this week_though only one Republican member, Maine's Olympia Snowe, has indicated she would join the committee's 13 Democrats in approving the measure.
No, they'll be like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football again, make noises like they're interested in dealing but what they'll really expect is for their ideas to be adopted even though they're in the minority and had eight years of their hero in the White House to take care of this problem but preferred to invade countries that were no real threat to us.
Posted by: borisjimbo | October 08, 2009 at 12:20 AM