"Clearly they don't--or they wouldn't be having so much trouble getting their bills passed in the Senate."
This is simplistic, defeatist--and for some posters on Mudcat, a fairly typical attitude.
You're a vicious little man, Ron Davies. You don't give a crap about getting health care to those who need it. You only care about feeding your insatiable appetite for abusing people and making personal attacks. I did not say the Democrats should stop trying. That fiction only exists in your little mind.
1) The Senate has in fact passed its own health care bill. So it involves compromise--and horsetrading (if only among Democrats.) This is not new--ever heard of "logrolling"? The poster's attitude sounds like a wonderful example of the problem cited in the "Friends Like This" thread. Compromise may well be necessary--it's called politics--and accomplishing something. Doesn't seem to be a main goal here below the line.
As it happens, Ron, and you would know this had you actually ever bothered to read what I have said on the subject, I have been supporting the passage of the Senate bill, in the absence of a better alternative. Since I am one of the fifty million people without access to health care, even the Senate bill is an improvement over what I have now. It's not all theoretical for me, unlike you. MY life depends on it, so it is a very real issue for me. But you haven't bothered to notice my stance on this issue, because you are much too busy compulsively hurling insults at and bullying as many people as you possibly can, as often as you possibly can.