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Re: Romney: It’s Time For Obama ‘To Apologize To America’ |
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Posted by Nilet on Tue Oct 7 10:23:31 2014, in response to Re: Romney: It’s Time For Obama ‘To Apologize To America’, posted by italianstallion on Tue Oct 7 10:10:07 2014. You may forget that there were also several Democrats in the Senate against single-payer, or even a public option.You may forget that Obama was leaning heavily on the ones who supported single payer to drop that support, not the ones who opposed it to go along. Then when Scott Brown was elected, the GOP could filibuster at will. You also seem to forget that a filibuster is basically a legislative temper tantrum— if you can't vote for cloture, simply wait for it to blow over, keeping in mind that it'd be politically disastrous for the Republicans to even try. But that's not what happened. The Republicans said: "We plan to filibuster that," at which point the Democrats voluntarily chose not to pass it even though they easily could. The general public was not privy to that exchange and saw only the Democrats voluntarily choosing not to pass health care reform. Anything more than the ACA was unpassable. Bullshit. If Obama and Reid supported single payer, it would have passed. The Democrats who rode into office on Obama's coattails would not have stood against him for long if he demanded they support it and if Reid was willing to call the Republicans' bluff the alleged filibusters simply wouldn't happen or would end quickly. And you may think the ACA doesn't go far enough, but it is FAR better than the previous system. Better how? Before the ACA, I had no insurance. With the ACA, I have no insurance and I'm legally required to pay premiums I can't afford for insurance I don't have. |
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