Sheesh. What a waste of nitpicking bandwidth, Don. ;-) Look, the word "we" in that post of Sawzaw's simply means anyone who was opposed to the health care bill and anyone in Congress who voted against it. That included both the Republicans and some Democrats. Amongst the public it would include most Republicans, some Democrats, and various independents as well. People had a great variety of reasons for opposing that health bill (often diametrically opposite reasons, in fact...). For some it was too "leftist" (ha! ha!). For others it wasn't leftist enough. For some it was a move by "big government" against private enterprise. For others it was a move by the government to reward private enterprise at the expense of the public.

Sawzaw makes it quite clear that he is a Democrat, but that he opposes this particular piece of legislation. It is you who are muddying the matter by your eager search to prove that Sawzaw is some sort of apostate (a traitor to his own party?) because he prefers the opposing party's position on one piece of legislation.

He's simply showing that he's an independent thinker who doesn't always support EVERYTHING his own party does. I think we could use a few more of those, don't you?

I'm not posting any of the above because I support the Republicans in any way. I don't. I'm posting it because you are conveniently misinterpreting Sawzaw's post to satisfy your own emotional need to attack him and prove he's some kind of hypocrite, but you have not understood what he said in that post at all.

There is no conflict between being a Democratic Party member, and   not supporting EVERY single thing a Democratic administration decides to do. If there were, it would mean Democrats aren't human beings at all...just blindly obedient robots who vote party line regardless of what the issue is.

(Sort of like the Republicans?) ;-) Actually, most members of Congress do act like blindly obedient robots most of the time...and that is one of the things that is so sick and so wrong about the party system itself. It enforces conformity...what Sawzaw has been calling "tribalism", and stifles independent thought. As such, it is inimical to the very concept of freedom and good government.

And that's why I don't like political parties.   And that's why I've never belonged to one and I never will.