"Bipartisanship" on health care = guaranteed failure

[eridani]

It is entirely beside the point what the bill will look like. The Repukes will be against it. Any bill that a Repuke will vote for is a bill that will require us to pay for our own deaths, disabilities and bankruptcies.

In 1993 conservative pundit Irving Kristol advised the GOP that the Clinton proposal "should not be amended; it should be erased," because "it will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests.“

In 2008, the Cato Institute has stated that “blocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival. If Obama succeeds in passing health care, then people who might have been conservatives will like it, and will be more likely to vote for the people who passed it.“

[wroberts189]

1. “blocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival"

EXACTLY and they know it. knr

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Which is why they should have made a big push for single payer, and then

made a big show of compromise and rammed through multipayer with a very strong and robust public option.

Instead they seem content to do PR reform and nothing substantial except public bail out for the insurance companies.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Replace Harry Reid with Barbara Boxer - Senate Leadership.

:thumbsup:

[avaistheone1]

5. Yes! yes! yes!!

:kick:

[Enrique]

7. Obama wouldn't let that happen

he needs Reid to hold off the liberals.

[avaistheone1]

10. It does feel that way,

but I hope you are wrong.

[Arkana]

4. Which is why we have to get something through the Senate.

Even if it's only 70-75% of what we wanted, it would still do a lot of good and it'd drive the GOP even further into the woods.

[Wednesdays]

6. K&R

:kick:

[BlueJac]

8. Everything is going as planned..........

the lobbyist own both houses and the white house. "Bipartisanship" is a bunch of fucking bullshit.

[salguine]

9. The late George Carlin: "Any time I see the word 'bipartisan', it lets me know

that some larger-than-usual deception is afoot."

[Orsino]

11. Why would you believe that?

Just because our failure has been compounded every single year so far doesn't mean that more bipartisanship isn't the solution.

Right? Right?