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Health Reform Hit Partisan 'Buzz Saw': Obama

President says he won't quit trying 'just because it's hard'

By the Associated Press

Posted Jan 22, 2010 1:20 PM CST

(AP) – President Obama says his health care overhaul has "run into a bit of a buzz saw" and acknowledges the process is looking ugly. Nonetheless he says he'll keep working to finish sweeping legislation. In comments prepared for a town hall meeting in Ohio today, Obama said, "I am not going to walk away just because it's hard."

The president said the GOP victory in Tuesday's Senate election in Massachusetts has thrown Washington into something of a frenzy. Republican Scott Brown's victory denied Democrats the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority needed to advance the health care bill. Obama also said the health effort ran into the "buzz saw" of partisan politics and special interest opposition.

President Barack Obama visits a wind turbine manufacturing and fabrication lab today at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio.
President Barack Obama visits a wind turbine manufacturing and fabrication lab today at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio.   (AP Photo)
President Obama speaks at a town hall-style meeting today at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, as part of his "White House to Main Street Tour".
President Obama speaks at a town hall-style meeting today at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, as part of his "White House to Main Street Tour".   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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fancygapva
Jan 24, 2010 12:48 PM CST
It seems to me that Obama has not been partisan enough, has not fought hard enough and isn't liberal enough.
JonmarkP
Jan 24, 2010 9:15 AM CST
Bingo!
JonmarkP
Jan 24, 2010 7:23 AM CST
Real Americans (this does not include Teabirthers, who despise everything America stands for) want a much stronger bill: a public option or single-payer, because it's good for the country and good for America. The only ones against this are the insurance companies, ideologists, morons, and traitors.

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