The Donkey wrote:
Health care langushed in the Senate for months while a certain Senator from Montana held meeting after meeting with republican senators in an effort to craft "bipartisan" reform.
The result? Squat! Mitch McConnell let it be known that this was the big stick he wished to use against democratic donkeys nationally, and that he would tolerate no compromises.
This hasn't changed a bit -- lets see how much the republicans want to compromise now that they've kicked the door down.
Ummm ... craft "bipartisan" reform???
I believe the American public spoke loudly and clearly when we insisted that any Healthcare reform not include public funding for abortions, public healthcare for illegal immigrants, no 'death panels' (yes, I believe that was part of Obamacare, if you don't, it's not open for discussion with me), and the hidden tax costs, and the dismantling of our private healthcare system and subsequent government takeover.
The uncompromising ones were the Democrats who demonstrated publicly just how much they listened to their constituents during the townhall meetings.
IMHO, republicans have been the ones to compromise in the spirit of bipartisanship over the past 40 years and it is time to stop the compromises! They are what led us to this irrational precipice with our economy in shambles, our posterity in debt before they are even born, and a democrat majority in congress that is out of control.
Not only is this nation in trouble internally, but our image of strength and independence has been marred internationally by a subservient, kowtowing, "neither fish nor fowl" political whore who not only sells out to unions and social-engineering special interest groups at home, but in foreign nations to heads of state that are idealogically opposed to our American Values.
The problem isn't Democrat/Republican, liberal/conservative, or socialist/republican, it is that the last election demonstrated the appalling lack of critical thinking in an amazingly large portion of the American Public. IMHO a plethora of today's 'social ills' could be greatly reduced with an education system designed to teach and enhance critical thinking.