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I don't blame Obama entirely for this – this is a downstream byproduct of the "sausage-making" ( "If you love the law and sausage, don't be at the making of either one!") aspect of Washington politics.
Obama admin releases list of health care execs to visit WH 2009
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Then the sausage-making of policy and governing elongates the envisioned road map of their hope and change.
Burns Strider: Manning Up to Sharing Our Testimony as Democrats Burns Strider 2010
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After this drawn-out sausage-making debacle, we can trust the Democratic leadership to immediately turn around and introduce MORE healthcare bills, and make them their top priority, and move heaven and earth to get them passed??!
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In addition, some people were turned off by the "sausage-making aspect" of the legislative process.
Stephen M. Davidson: Why Support the Imperfect Health Care Reform Law: An Extended Path of Progress Stephen M. Davidson 2010
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With the cameras, we will all have our eyes opened to the sausage-making process.
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John Cole appears to have fewer buttons to push during the sausage-making than do many at Kos.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Beatings will continue until morale improves 2010
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Despite all the nice talk about protecting privacy, what will remain once the administrative sausage-making is done?
Jay Stanley: Don't Put Your Trust in "Trusted Identities" Jay Stanley 2011
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Despite all the nice talk about protecting privacy, what will remain once the administrative sausage-making is done?
Jay Stanley: Don't Put Your Trust in "Trusted Identities" Jay Stanley 2011
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And so on: seeing how someone aggressively pursues media stardom is a sausage-making experience.
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Kyl, who loudly decried the closed door sausage-making on healthcare legislation, had a softer tone on the jobs bill.
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