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John Conyers: “I’m tired of saving Obama’s can”

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on November 24, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Via the NYT Prescriptions blog:

“I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House,” Mr. Conyers, one of the most liberal members of the House and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said in a radio interview on “The Bill Press Show.”

“I mean, he only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn’t anything to write home about,” Mr. Conyers said of the health care legislation that the House passed on Nov. 7. “The public option is only available — which is the only way you manage cost and give some competition to 1,300 other health insurance companies — the only way he could have got that through is that progressives held their nose and voted for the plan anyway.”

Mr. Conyers also complained that the idea of a single-payer system had been “taken off the table from the beginning.”

Asked if the president had shown enough leadership on health care, Mr. Conyers said, “Of course not, of course not.”

“You know,” he added, “holding hands out, and beer on Friday nights in the White House, and bowing down to every nutty right-wing proposal about health care, and saying on occasion that public options aren’t all that important, is doing a disservice to the Barack Obama that I first met, who was an ardent single-payer enthusiast himself.”

Bbbbut I thought that Obama “never” was a proponent of single-payer? Ooops …

Trouble in paradise?

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    • 4 Responses to “John Conyers: “I’m tired of saving Obama’s can””

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    1. Carlos says:
      November 24, 2009 at 3:42 pm

      Of course there is trouble in paradise. It starts when any particular action doesn’t meet the particular criteria of any liberal who, by definition, knows what is best for everybody else. Their insipid arrogance does not allow for them to see the beauty of an occasional compromise, only that if a compromise is struck it’s just a waylay to the ultimate goal as envisioned by that particular liberal.

      Duh-1 envisions a single-payer system down the road. Conyers is too wrapped up in himself to see that, if that system is to come, Zero’s game is the only one that can bring it about. Which is also why this monster has to be defeated now, not down the road.

      And since D.C. is full of thousands of arrogant liberals, there are thousands of visions of what should be done to, I mean for, the average American.

    2. Jo says:
      November 25, 2009 at 9:13 am

      This ‘health care bill’ is just a composite of this entire reign of terror–it’s like a train wreck from which you cannot turn away. What a disaster for our nation.

    3. Carlos says:
      November 25, 2009 at 1:03 pm

      P.S. – What makes Conyers think he can even find his own can, let alone save Duh-1’s?