Reply #9: I believe LESS compromise would have been necessary [View All]

[Cirque du So-What]

if the Democratic party had acted like the majority party from the get-go. Democrats could still have given the repugs the opportunity to provide input without appearing intransigent. Meanwhile, the repugs haven't budged an inch, nor have they provided realistic alternatives. As for the shit that originates from the likes of Stupak, why in pluperfect hell didn't our party leadership get out in front of this and explain that his amendment is redundant and unnecessary? Instead, it was allowed to become a wedge issue right in our own party...and in spite of all this, a large contingency of internet trolls has made a cottage industry out of attempting to derail this bill - ipso facto aligning themselves with freeps/teabaggers/repugs/blue dogs/ideological purists on the left. Of course, not a mother's one will admit as much here on DU, but at the end of the day, that's how the votes are counted, and they're on the same side as the fucking freeps. Truth hurts, but accepting reality is part of growing up.