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  Cantor: Only Route To Bipartisan Cooperation Is If Dems Fully Embrace GOP Plan
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Last EditedEddie  Feb 08, 2010 07:26pm
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AuthorGreg Sargent
News DateMonday, February 8, 2010 03:40:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionEric Cantor's office responds to Obama’s announcement of a bipartisan summit on health care with the most explicit and direct assertion I’ve seen yet that the only way Dems can win bipartisan cooperation is to fully embrace the GOP health care plan and nothing more:

"After going it alone on health care reform for nearly a year, President Obama has decided he wants to bring Republicans into the conversation. Here’s the problem: unless the President and Speaker Pelosi are willing to scrap their government take over and hit the reset button, there’s not much to talk about.

Republicans believe the status quo is unacceptable, but so is any health reform package that spends money we don’t have or raises taxes on small businesses and working families in a recession. To that point, House Republicans have offered the only plan , that will lower health care costs, which is what the President said was the goal at the start of this debate."

I’m not sure if it could be made any more explicit than that.

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