07-13-2016, 08:36 PM
Speedy wrote:
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What almost everyone in this country forgets is that Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA0 was a piece of legislative sausage created from the floor sweepings of decades of health insurance industry lobbyists proposals. And directly supervised BY health insurance industry lobbyists, who, as I recall, had an office in the West Wing.
So of course it was designed to benefit the health insurance industry. But they bought into their own propaganda, and believed that only health people were running around without health insurance. Oops.
Do you remember that Republicans almost doubled the number of pages in the bill and then all voted against it?
Yeah, it was a classic rope-a-dope that went on for nearly a year. Obama (and the congressional Dems) learned a hard lesson about the worth of pursuing "bipartisanship" with the current crop of GOP'ers.
It was a "sigh" moment.
No, it was a 'we royalty screwed up' moment because the Republicans wouldn't have even bothered with bipartisanship if they had super-majorities. But, remember, the Bluedogs made it very close in the House.
Democrats are not Republicans. Republicans only have to concern themselves with ripping apart society, supply siding our economy, blocking, stopping etc. They're not burdened any longer with crafting legislation that requires both bodies. The Democratic Party is a big tent and Blue Dogs are a valid part of the party. Nothing we want can be easily passed. We need a little GOP buy in.