Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on MSNBC’s The Ed Show last night that two key Republican negotiators are not, in good faith, trying to work out a bipartisan health bill, Greg Sargent reports.
“The idea of having Grassley and Enzi negotiate in good faith is pretty much gone,” quoth Schumer, adding that a bipartisan solution is not “likely to happen now.”
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Republicans will likely jump on the comment as proof that Dems have decided to abandon Repubs at the negotiating table. Liberals will greet it as an acknowledgment of reality. But it’s still unclear how much of this talk from Schumer and Harry Reid is genuine determination to go it alone if necessary and how much of it is bluffing and posturing.
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