Since the Rs won’t vote for any decent bill, then the admin and Congressional leaders should just go ahead and put together a good bill and the hell with the Rs and bi-partisanship.

Of course, that would mean they actually want to help folks and not just play BS games.

here’s my biggest frustration;

I THOUGHT Obama would be an intelligent president who might enjoy a sharp learning curve

this president learns nothing

he still does not know that the entire republican strategy is to vote against anything he authors

this is their method for insuring he has a failed presidency, by first making believe they have bi-partisan input, thusly SEVERELY weakening the program in the first place, and THEN voting against that weakened bill

this is actually pretty good strategy since Obama is proving such a moron that he then goes on to take a weakened bill and re-write it to be even more “republican”, so weak it actually serves to help industry once again rather then the people and therefore becoming counter productive to the original purpose of that bill

you know, a person can have a great speaking voice, deliver a terrific speach and still be a moron, ronald reagan comes to mind

the more I see how easy it has been for republicans to manipulate this president the more I fear we have elected yet another moron

I sure hope his learning curve improves, so far his learning curve does not exist, it is flat…as a matter of fact his learning curve is worse then flat since it seems by the end of promoting a bill and having it ready for vote it resembles republican agenda, not democrat, not progressive and not for the benefit of our economy or country

If the Democrats pass a strictly Democratic bill and the Democratic president signs it without any Republican votes, it will more likely be a good plan and likely to work. Therefore, just like Social Security, the Democrats can campaign on the plan’s success for decades while the Republicans wail in the political wilderness.

Why can’t our Democratic party electeds see the advantage of passing a partisan plan? Not only is it good for the American people, it’s also good for their political interests. Sometimes I think they don’t understand electoral politics at all.

Do a good thing for people.
Get the credit.
Vanquish your political enemies for a generation.

What is so hard about that? Additionally, if there’s one thing the Democrats could do to ward off any nascent third-party on the left, it would be universal health care.

Book Salon up at the Mothership with Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God hosted by John Horgan

your logic is unassailable. have you factored in campaign contributions/lobbying money/bribery?

bi·par·ti·san (bī-pär’tĭ-zən, -sən)

adj. Of, consisting of, or supported by members of two parties, especially two major political parties: a bipartisan resolution.

(just seemed like somebody should do it)

wonder what it means in D.C.?

One of the (many) moments I wish my would-be Senator Franken were on the job.

Grrrrrr.

In DC, ‘bipartisan’ seems to mean ‘do what the GOoPers say, not what they do, and the heck with the public’.

Hopefully Franken will be seated next week to give the Democrats more “spine” on health reform in the Senate.

It’ll be a tough slog for Franken to catch up to speed if he hasn’t been working very hard already. Still, we need that vote and Kennedy & Byrd.

Didn’t Franken author/coin the term “doughnut hole” in relation to the Medicare Plan D drug scam?

I’m not quite sure about that, but I’ll look into it.