Pelosi: a bill can be bipartisan even if no one on the other side supports it
Speaker Pelosi is signaling Democrats will move forward with their own health care bill without Republican support, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t bipartisan!
“They’ve had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning. “Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint.”
The public option, for example, has been stripped from the bill because Republicans were so adamantly against it, she said.
“They’ve had a field day going out and misrepresenting what the bill says,” Pelosi said. “But that’s what they do.”
Makes sense, right? Just because Republicans and the American people prevented Democrats from making the bill as drastic as they wanted, it is now bipartisan.
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