First the health care bill was too long…
A spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner today ridiculed President Obama’s health care proposal because it’s too short.
“The White House’s ‘plan’ consists of an 11-page outline, which has not been scored by the Congressional Budget Office or posted online as legislative text. So they want to reorganize one-sixth of the United States’ economy with a document shorter than a comic book, and they’re complaining that they can’t find our plan on their own website? C’mon,” said the spokesman, Michael Steel, in an email to reporters.
Remember the complaints – the bill was too long, it was done in secret, it wasn’t shown on CSPAN, etc. Now Republicans are complaining because the health care summit is going to be shown on CSPAN and Obama’s guideline is too short.
In other health care reform related news, a bit of cold water was thrown on the push to add the public option by reconciliation by Jay Rockefeller. Also, Daniel Inouye added his name to the letter to add the public option back into the bill, making him #23 (we need 50). Keep calling Ted Kaufman and Tom Carper, neither of them have signed on yet.