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(((Viking Sea Mexican)))2/12/2010 1:37:19 pm PST

re: #65 HelloDare

Healthcare should be left to the states. That being said, Obama blew it. If he had worked with the Republicans, like he said he would do in the campaign, he could have passed a healthcare bill by now — something both the vast majority of both dems and republican could have agreed on — a pool for people with preexisting conditions, the ability to buy insurance across state lines, some form of mild tort reform. He could have had that. And it would not have precluded trying to get more passed later.

He would have been a hero to most who voted for him and many who did not.

But he didn’t do that. He let Reid and Pelosi dictate healthcare reform. Obama blew it. He may be brilliant but it sure isn’t stopping him from being stupid.

Stop revising what happened last year. Republicans were given ample opportunities to join the discussion, to the point of Obama negotiating directly with Sen. Snowe, the last Republican Congressperson willing to give this a chance (before the whole Tea Party/RNC Purity crash)