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HANDS ON

The Senate has started to take the "gang of six" health care reform proposal to the next level.

A group of senators met and a group of White House staff showed up to participate.

Here is Steve Benen's summation of the meeting.

The White House sent Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Director of the White House Office for Health Reform's Nancy-Ann DeParle, OMB Director Peter Orszag, Director of Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro, White House Senate Liaison Shawn Maher, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. In other words, Obama administration officials outnumbered senators two to one. We can probably safely describe this as a "hands-on" approach.

If you read enough lefty blogs (don't, it will give you a headache), you will read that Obama is softballing it and not really working to reign the congress in.

Hah!

The chess player has more "men" on the board.

Here is the whole article.

I notice that they did not invite Olympia Snowe, now reputed by some talking heads, to be the new power on health care reform. Once things get rolling watch her melt into the background. She will still be a vote but she is not "dictating" to the powers that be. The ones we voted for.

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