Reply #5: Can Someone Explain to Me Why We Have to Beg for a Public Option Let Alone...

[theFrankFactor]

single payer? I mean, for fuck's sake, Democrats have a "slight" advantage no? We have to beg, borrow, steal and scream to get what most Americans want in the first place? Why is this?

Do you suppose if the republicans won both houses and the Presidency with these numbers they would hire and fire as per Keith Olbermann and bend over backwards "reaching around... er, I mean across the isle to the democrats? Would they really be expected to?

What is the Republican equivalent to the "Blue Dog Democrats'?
(Almost seems to me that the Blue Dogs are insurance for the right that under no circumstances is a Democrat majority going to make a bit of difference and so far it's working beautifully.)

I seem to be stepping on a lot of toes over here these days and that's too bad. I just don't like this Washington Generals position the Democrats have happily assumed. Does anyone remember when the Dems were the minority? Wow! Now THAT was a minority! Here we have the Republicans who should be butt hurt after the elections and the shit pile that Cheney and Bush made of everything and yet it's they who call the shots. Why would any Democrat NOT be outraged that it's this hard to accomplish?

I don't get it and I don't think there's anything good to be "got".

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