re: #177 Killgore Trout

The Republican mantra is to “kill the Bill” not “improve the bill”. They are going to oppose any healthcare reform efforts. The Tea Party/Glenn Beck rhetoric about fascism and socialism means that any efforts to cooperate with Dems would be political suicide. There will be no bipartisan effort on healthcare reform.

Very true.
Also, I will add that the Brown win doesn’t mean much in that area. The Dems always and only had a ‘supermajority’ in name only, which is one reason why we didn’t see HCR passed in the previous 4 months. Blue Dogs, etc.
The Repubs will oppose all efforts at it. Many Dems will collude in those efforts.
So it goes.