politics.theatlantic.com - 10/8/2009
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Bob Dole supports health care reform."This is one of the most important measures members of Congress will vote on in their lifetimes," the former Republican Senate majority leader and presidential...
voices.kansascity.com - 10/7/2009
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Bob Dole By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star
editorial page columnist Bob Dole supports health care reform....
"This is one of the most important measures members of Congress will vote on in their lifetimes," the former Republican Senate majority ...
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Bob Dole outs naysayer Mitch McConnell
primebuzz.kcstar.com - 10/7/2009
huffingtonpost.com - 10/7/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kans.) told
a group of local Kansas reporters on Wednesday, that...
opposition to the president's health care package had been driven by knee-jerk partisanship and urged Congressional Republicans to get on board ...
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Bob Dole: Health Care Will Pass, GOP Should Get On Board
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Bob Dole, Actual Conservative
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Thank God he can still speak out. I always loved the guy, endorsed him in 1996, admire his midwestern Toryism, and his Gen-X sense of humor. He's right about this: ...
Catching Up on BaucusCare
Greg's Opinion —
... would connect.
As for Klein's takes, they're part and parcel of how I view the latest bills - a mix of good and bad. I'd love to see something sailing through that I could say nothing but nice things about. But the individual mandate is the biggest obstacle to that. The fact that the remaining reforms rely on that crutch to solve universality rather than push for market mechanism to do so, is a function of the same hangup.
ADD-ON: And for whatever it's worth, Bob Dole is on board with BaucusCare.
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