Subject: RE: BS: Supreme Court Kills Democratic Party...
From: CarolC - PM
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 10:37 AM

If the current--quickly fleeting--Democratic majorities mean anything

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...

...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.


Like I said, only an idiot could possibly think that putting words in my mouth and then demanding that I defend them is a legitimate form of argumentation. If the resident troll can find any post of mine in which I have expressed opposition to the passage of the Senate bill, I will retract my comment about putting words in my mouth. As I said before, troll, put up or shut up.