Obama Calls the GOP's Bluff
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightWith Republican governors complaining that the Affordable Care Act doesn't give them enough flexibility, President Barack Obama on Monday offered a compromise: He'd allow them to opt out of the law altogether, just as long as they had an alternative method of providing universal coverage.Although a few Republican governors responded positively, the party's more visible leaders were quick to condemn the move as meaningless. "Flexibility," quipped Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, "I be...