Porter Goss: “the President has set many deadlines for health care reform--true, such lines in the sand make for good PR. But so far…”

“the President has set many deadlines for health care reform--true, such lines in the sand make for good PR. But so far each of those ``drop dead'' dates has been missed--as the President's ill-conceived and unworkable Big Government health reform plan dies a slow death. Today we return from Memorial Day recess--when the Democrat-controlled committees of this House were supposed to produce a new Clinton health care bill that met the President's objectives. But Democrats are not much closer than before to agreement--mainly because so much of the Clinton health care proposal is so unpalatable to most Americans. so now the Fourth of July is the latest deadline--and those cracking the whip for Clinton-style Government-run health care say they mean business--but not regrettably private enterprise business. Why does the Clinton administration continue to whip this dead horse? Let's come together for bipartisan health reform that can and will work. Our side is ready.”