HuffPo: Health Care Will Pass and GOP Should Get On Board

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Bob Dole gets it up for ObamaCare

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kans.) told Kansas reporters on Wednesday that opposition to the president's health care package had been driven by knee-jerk partisanship.  He urged Congressional Republicans to get on board a version of reform.

The 1996 Republican presidential candidate also predicted that "there will be a signing ceremony" for a reform bill sometime this year or early in 2010.

But the comments that seem likely to create the most dissension were those that dealt with congressional opposition to the White House. Dole called the pushback to Barack Obama's reform agenda as almost perfunctory in nature.

"Sometimes people fight you just to fight you," he said, according to The Kansas City Star. "They don't want Reagan to get it, they don't want Obama to get it, so we've got to kill it...

"Health care is one of those things," he added. "Now we've got to do something."

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