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"Top aides to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called a last-minute, pre-emptive strike on Wednesday with a group of prominent Democratic lobbyists, warning them to advise their clients not to attend a meeting with Senate Republicans set for Thursday. Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus' chief of staff, met with a bloc of more than 20 contract lobbyists, including several former Baucus aides. "They said, 'Republicans are having this meeting and you need to let all of your clients know if they have someone there, that will be viewed as a hostile act,'"said a Democratic lobbyist who attended the meeting. "Going to the Republican meeting will say, 'I'm interested in working with Republicans to stop health care reform,'"the lobbyist added."
The fact is that the ONLY reason we don't have that universal cr@p sandwich is because the Dems took over the House in 2006 by recruiting a bunch of blue dog Dems to run.. They had to keep them in line and they would never approve a universal plan. So they passed Obamacare to ensure they got the moderate Dem vote . It had nothing to do with consideration for Republic ideas . None of them were incorporated .