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Barone: Dems' health strategy doesn't add up to a win
By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
February 28, 2010
"More
talk, no deal" was the Wall Street Journal's headline on Thursday's
Blair House health care summit. "After summit flop, Democrats prepare
to go it alone on Obamacare" proclaimed the headline here at
The Washington Examiner.
These were appropriate verdicts if you viewed the summit as an attempt
to reach bipartisan agreement or even a limited consensus.
But that, of course, was not why Barack Obama convened this unique
colloquy. He did so as part of an attempt to pass some Democratic
health care bill, somehow, through both houses of Congress -- and to
discredit the Republicans who opposed the bills passed by the House in
November and the Senate in December.
In that he seems to have failed. The Atlantic's Clive Crook, who
supports the Democratic bills, concluded that "the Republicans did not
come across as the party of no. They looked well-informed, pragmatic
and engaged in the discussion. It was the Democrats who leaned more
heavily on talking points and seemed evasive and unspecific."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Dems_-health-strategy-doesn_t-add-up-to-a-win-85566007.html