{"id":6583,"date":"2009-08-19T13:32:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/gibbs-disputes-reports-that-de.html"},"modified":"2009-08-19T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:32:47","slug":"gibbs-disputes-reports-that-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/gibbs-disputes-reports-that-de.html","title":{"rendered":"Gibbs disputes reports that Democrats are no longer working with Republicans on ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/washtimes\">From the Washington Times<\/a>:<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XY9xoQlhmuM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XY9xoQlhmuM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/08\/gibbs-denies-reports-that-wh-democrats-giving-up-on-bipartisan-health-care-bill-absolutely-not.html\">According to Gibbs, Obama is willing to do anything including &#8220;orbit the moon:&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    &#8220;Absolutely not,&#8221; Gibbs said. &#8220;We continue to be hopeful that we can get bipartisan support and will continue to work with those that are interested in doing that.&#8221;    &#8220;Our goal is to get this done in a bipartisan way,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are several more weeks to go in potential negotiations between Republicans and Democrats. I don&#8217;t know why we would short circuit any of that now.&#8221;    Gibbs said if that were the intention, he would go on vacation. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why on August 19 we would declare on something that would be voted on in either September or October that the possibility is only 51 votes,&#8221; he said.    The president&#8217;s spokesman said Mr. Obama would &#8220;orbit the moon&#8221; if he thought it would help bring progress in health care reform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But would he be willing to use free-market solutions for healthcare reform? No, we know that he would rather orbit the moon than do that!(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/08\/gibbs-denies-reports-that-wh-democrats-giving-up-on-bipartisan-health-care-bill-absolutely-not.html\">via<\/a>)BTW, to counter the face time of the protesters at the town hall meetings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0809\/26231.html\">Obama&#8217;s ginning up support on his side<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Times:According to Gibbs, Obama is willing to do anything including &#8220;orbit the moon:&#8221; &#8220;Absolutely not,&#8221; Gibbs said. &#8220;We continue to be hopeful that we can get bipartisan support and will continue to work with those that are interested in doing that.&#8221; &#8220;Our goal is to get this done in a bipartisan way,&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-2","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gibbs disputes reports that Democrats are no longer working with Republicans on ObamaCare - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/gibbs-disputes-reports-that-de.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gibbs disputes reports that Democrats are no longer working with Republicans on ObamaCare - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the Washington Times:According to Gibbs, Obama is willing to do anything including &#8220;orbit the moon:&#8221; 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