As a demonstration of our good faith and our hopes for a meaningful bipartisan approach to

[Atticus]

healthcare reform, we declined to even DISCUSS single payer. Number of Republican votes this won: ZERO.

In successive surgeries, we amputated so many parts of our "robust" public option that it no longer concerns insurers and no longer pleases our party's base. Number of Republican votes this won: ZERO.

In an attempt to please the Conference of Catholic Bishops and Fundies of both parties, the House passed the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and threatened decades of progress for women's right to make choices about their own bodies (and gave us a new poster-boy for "Lyin" Sack o'Shit"). Number of Republican votes this won: ZERO.

These are just the "headliners". Other "lesser" points have been conceded or softened in an effort to attract "bipartisan support" for healthcare reform. Return on our "investment": zero, nothing, nada, zilch, bupkus.


"INSANITY: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."---ALBERT EINSTEIN

[Bitwit1234]

1. And we have the Weasel McConnell on TV

saying the democrats are arrogant. What the devil? Does he mean arrogant like going into the basement and taking the mike, recorder and turning the lights off on the democrats when they were having a meeting? Then demanding the Sgt of Arms throw them out. Or pushing bills thru the congress without allowing the democrats to even mention an amendment?

Now that's what I call arrogant. Not allowing the republicans to take over congress when they are in the minority, what's arrogant about that.

[saracat]

2. Seems our "concessions" don't gain anything!

[LWolf]

3. They gain a lot for the insurance cartel. nt

[saracat]

4. True that!

[havocmom]

7. And probably some 'atta-boy' contributions to various campaign coffers

Meanwhile, America gets sicker.

[LWolf]

9. Of course.

Maintain the status quo, maintain your own position, sell the rest out.

[FatDave]

5. We had to do all that shit to please conservative "democrats".

Republicans are insignificant in this.

(edit: put quotes around "democrats")

[tblue]

6. Gee. I wonder why. Senator Reid couldn't possibly be a Blue Dog in disguise,

now could he? And Obama? I'm sorry, but I think he is, too.

[FatDave]

8. I dunno.

They could be a lot better, but they're not as bad as the blue dogs.