Reply #14: No, I'm saying that they don't get to just use it as an excuse for not doing the work.

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The work, namely, being using the bully pulpit to bolster support for what's right.

When you have the right ideas, and are actually trying to fix problems, that can be done. They didn't even TRY with the public option- and the support was already there!

All they had to do was stand up to the jerks blocking it- many of them our OWN DEM REPRESENTATIVES (and only 2 or 3 of them!)- and say, look, this is what people want, and, moreover (President Obama speaking, here), "If you don't vote for this, I'm going to your state/district to unseat you."