Flush With Victory, Democrats Are in No Hurry to Reconcile

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Democrats are newly optimistic about picking up seats in 2018, hoping to ride a backlash against Mr. Trump. Seeing an opportunity, they say they will not throw Mr. Trump a political life preserver at what they sense could be the first turns of a downward spiral.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flush-with-victory-democrats-are-in-no-hurry-to-reconcile/ar-BByQ5u9?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=spartanntp

[Girard442]

1. Guys, I'm happy too, but our "victory" came from our opponents shooting themselves in the foot.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. No

Unified Democratic opposition made it necessary for Republicans to hold onto every vote just to scrape by.

We won because we were unified they were not.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

5. Supporters of the health law popularly known as Obamacare,

launched an all-out campaign for its survival, keeping Democrats unified in opposition to its repeal, and identifying and exploiting Republican divisions that ultimately forced GOP leaders to pull the bill at the eleventh hour Friday.

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[DFW]

14. That is unfortunately correct

A unified Democratic opposition would have been useless in the face of a unified Republican Congressional delegation. But with their "leadership," if a rudderless boat can be called that, is as torn by petty infighting by extremist factions unwilling to give a millimeter, they will provide us with the hope we need that their damage will not be as pervasive as it originally threatened to be. They still want to do a lot of evil, but as long as each faction continues to say, "MY evil or no evil," they will be slow to get anything done.

[Callmecrazy]

2. That's right...

Even the leadership said it was a victory for America, not the party.
But you know what? The ACA does need some fixing and if the right has a workable solution, I'll listen.

[Hortensis]

19. The GOP intends to "fix" it, all right. The GOP fight is about

HOW MUCH they can get away with destroying now. One or two big wrecking ball swings or several smaller incremental dismantlings, hoping people will become resigned and blame the Democrats for creating a healthcare plan that was "collapsing" all by itself anyway.

Even the few more moderate members of Congress who are interested in keeping it under a new name and who would work with us want to make it less, not more. The horrible Ryan bill was designed to cut almost a TRILLION DOLLARS from Obamacare, but they were all going to hold their noses and vote for it.

Nothing to work with there, only oppose.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. I got your life preserver right here ...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Perfect!

Yeah!

Throw the bastards an anvil!

[kairos12]

7. Perfect.

[zentrum]

9. That's very funny!

[workinclasszero]

12. You read my mind!

[Cryptoad]

8. Why would we,,,,

reconcile with aHoles still going around having rallies chanting "Lock Her Up"???????? Hell NO!

[JBoy]

10. When your opponent is busy digging a hole

Be ready to lend him a shovel.

[wiggs]

11. Have to say, not impressed with the article. Makes dems out to be more interested

in perennial campaign rather than interested in governing. Dems are not the same as republicans...we don't take stands with just the next election in mind.

Just more horserace reporting.

[JCanete]

18. yeah exactly. The writer is either lazy or lying. Behaving that way would not be acceptable to

the Democratic base, which actually wants our politicians to govern, not to simply play politics. The writer's version of compromise is not compromise at all...it is capitulation.

And Sanders was just on Dana Brash, and she was selling the same absolute bullshit about democrats being obstructionists unwilling to work with Trump. It's pretty damn transparent, and I hope there's enough pushback that the media eats shit over this water carrying.

[pecosbob]

13. If you can call that winning

If the repubs weren't totally inept we'd have Trumpcare right now.

[dalton99a]

16. The vile asshole is trying to reverse everything Obama did.

[JCanete]

17. There has been nothing at this point, put on the table by republicans that is conciliatory.

This MSM bullshit is an embarrassment of journalism. They're going to move the goal posts all the way over to crazy town.
They don't seem to understand or care what compromise is. Compromise is give somebody something and have them give you something, not give somebody something because what he wants is a fuck load more than just that something.

This doesn't look anything at all like McConnell's behavior. Obama tried to sell back to republicans their own effing plans from past years, and they still refused them. Trump has literally attempted to blow up everything that is decent about American government, and has made no ovations to the left at all. This isn't simply a political calculation about making sure Trump is seen as a failure...if he put up something that wasn't determined to cause pestilence, I'm guessing we would support it...but that isn't likely to ever happen.