re: #796 BryanS

I know…but alas it was “too extreme” for Dems to consider the idea and work with Repubs to enact it. If the Dems would have done more of that, they could have peeled of at least Snowe and Collins, possibly a few others.

Their large majorities, however, emboldened the far left in the House to pass a bill that could never pass in the Senate—even a filibuster proof one. Clinton was pretty good with a Republican house/senate. I think Obama could be a pragmatic, if more left leaning, president as well.

For better or worse Obama didn’t really hand down a plan for Healthcare reform.

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Clinton do that and he end up getting skewered for trying to tell the congress what to vote on?

Meanwhile Obama just tell his congress he wants them to whip up some healthcare reform, and what comes out of it is too liberal to get passed in the senate because he didn’t provide them with directions of what was the least he would settle for….

Damned if you damned if you don’t it seems like….