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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
your "intelligent substantive" argument is that Obama could not give any 1 R anything he would have wanted because then Obama would not have gotten exactly his plan? and that means the Rs were bad, each and every one?
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I know that facts are much harder to understand than your preferred simple syllogisms, but they spent an entire summer trying to get 1 R to vote with them. Neither of us know what might have been offered to Snowe, Grassley, et al, but we do know that they eventually toed the R party line, which was a blanket "no" to any and every concrete proposal.
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he gave a Dem congressman a promise that no gov funds would go to abortions. was that part of his plan or an accommodation?
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And you think this (and what Nelson briefly got) is evidence that Obama wasn't open to offering similar inducements to the 1 R who was willing to blink??
