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Originally Posted by Tex
I disagree. Been a busy day, but I'll try to get you some data as to why later.
Yeah, the House has trouble with the Senate, and the Senate has trouble with the House. We call that bicameral legislation. We also have a method for resolving those problems called conference committees. Unforunately Pelosi decided it would be better to cut backroom deals than work out in the open, so I don't feel a lot of sympathy there.
The only person to blame for House Democrat intransigence is the House leadership. Stop trying to blame others for her woes.
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You may want to refresh your memory as to why there was no conference committee (it had nothing to do with Pelosi). Republican Senators were placing holds on conference committee appointments making it impossible for the committee to ever form. Weren't you saying something about "naked partisanship" earlier?
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So they're reflexively reactionary idiots who make decisions on what gets said on Fox News rather than the facts? And these are the people you want rewriting the health care system?
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Some most certainly are, yes. As to whether I want them rewriting the health care system, is there another option I am unaware of?
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That's all mostly true, and I'm not going to disagree that Coakley was a terrible candidate, as was Creigh Deeds. But if you think that's all that was in this race, you're misreading it badly.
Not that I mind, necessarily. Obama says "this is a fight I want to have" ... I say "bring it on." The harder he pushes left, the more the Dems will lose critical elections.
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So you say, again without any evidence.
Here's another link proposing what I described for health care, by the way:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...eeks-on-Reform