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In reply to the discussion: I refuse to apologize for being a Democrat. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I say Republicans only count if they can, all by themselves, get their opinions forward and accepted, it sure as fuck is not my job to seek fair treatment of those whom I utterly and totally oppose.
All that so called compromise with Republicans around the ACA netted not one Republican vote for the ACA, so the fact is the 'compromises' were simply demands made by Blue Baggers and Tea Dogs on the right side of the Democratic caucus. They removed the Public Option, not Republicans. They did it. Obama promised again and again not to sign a bill without a strong Public Option, then in the end he did what Max Blue Dog told him to do. Not one Republican vote. You say Republicans count too, but not one of them voted for ACA, not one, and yet it is a law. Do you think it should not be a law, because the poor Republicans did not count in that debate?
I will not apologize for seeking the total destruction of the Republican Party. I say they don't count at all. I say, in fact, fuck the Republicans, thwart them, defeat them then laugh about it.