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...in bed with big business? I guess it is OK if the Dems do it.

Ben Smith, Kenneth P. Vogel Ben Smith, Kenneth P. Vogel – Fri Oct 16, 6:04 am ET
At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Barack Obama and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.

The role Baucus’s chief of staff, Jon Selib, and deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina played in launching the groups was part of a successful effort by Democrats to enlist traditional enemies of health care reform to their side. No quid pro quo was involved, they insist, as do the lobbyists themselves.

The result has been a somewhat unlikely alliance between an administration that came into power criticizing George W. Bush for his closeness to Big Business and groups such as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the American Medical Association.

The previously undisclosed meeting April 15 at the offices of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee led to the creation of two groups — Americans for Stable Quality Care and a now-defunct predecessor group called Healthy Economy Now — that have spent tens of millions of dollars on TV advertising supporting health reform efforts.
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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

No, its not okay. I already exposed Baucus and some other senate finance dems for being in bed with the health care lobbyists on the blog.
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SSSS · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:44 am Post subject:

money and power do not recognize party lines or boundries.
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:01 am Post subject:

phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

WHAT SSSS SAID.......I WANT TO REPEAT...

The role Baucus’s chief of staff, Jon Selib, and deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina played in launching the groups was part of a successful effort by Democrats to enlist traditional enemies of health care reform to their side. No quid pro quo was involved, they insist, as do the lobbyists themselves.

The result has been a somewhat unlikely alliance between an administration that came into power criticizing George W. Bush for his closeness to Big Business and groups such as the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the American Medical Association.

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Exposing the secular humanist liberal "progressives".

Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject:

Thank you, Mr. Redundant. Good to see you can think for yourself.
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phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

SSSS · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject:

what would I do without ya phony-always helping me out here......
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject:

SSSS · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject:

ME ??? nah! Cool

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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject:

phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject:

Olympia Snowe just might be the best member of the entire Congress.
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phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject:

Phony, I handle the submissions as I get them. If they make no point or are just asking a question about the handling of a previous comment, I don't post them.
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The priests of the different religious sects dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

- Thomas Jefferson