{"id":662379,"date":"2010-02-11T22:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/republicans-threaten-to-skip-healthcare-summit-unless-obama-starts-from-scratch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:31:09","slug":"republicans-threaten-to-skip-healthcare-summit-unless-obama-starts-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/662379","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Threaten To Skip Healthcare Summit Unless Obama Starts From Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/John%2BBoehner_1961_19606559_0_0_7052682_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Republicans threaten to skip healthcare summit unless Obama starts from scratch\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">On Monday, leading House Republicans responded to President Obama&#8217;s proposal for a bipartisan summit on healthcare reform, stating that they may decline to participate if the administration uses the Democratic bills as a starting point. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) expressed concern over reports that the president plans to promote the same piece of legislation that the GOP has publicly condemned over the last few months. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate,&quot; Boehner and Cantor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The two House leaders also openly questioned Obama&#8217;s sincerity regarding an open, bipartisan discussion concerning healthcare reform. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8217;Bipartisanship&#8217; is not writing proposals of your own behind closed doors, then unveiling them and demanding Republican support,&quot; they said. &quot;Bipartisan ends require bipartisan means.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In response, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that the president is open to any &quot;good ideas that stand up to objective scrutiny,&quot; but also stated that Obama has been clear about his support for the congressional bills created by Democrats. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19606559-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, leading House Republicans responded to President Obama&#8217;s proposal for a bipartisan summit on healthcare reform, stating that they may decline to participate if the administration uses the Democratic bills as a starting point. In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Whip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Mjx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763773,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662379\/revisions\/763773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}