Quote Originally Posted by Tgo01 View Post
Oh okay.

So Bush's plan was just shit, right? So the best course of action is to ignore the plan altogether, demonize it and don't even put it up for a vote and instead scrape it all and start over and shut out Republicans from the process and don't even attempt to work with Republicans to rework the plan to make it better?

But it's only shitty when Republicans do that, right? When Democrats do that shit it's okay and just proves that they are the only ones who care about healthcare reform and make it look like Republicans want Americans to die, right? Look, cwolff, you're not a bad guy, I just think you sip a bit too much of the Democratic kool aid. It's okay to turn off Rachel Maddow every now and then.

I know that and you know that, problem is I don't think cwolff knows that.
They didn't shut the GOP out of the debate. The republicans pushed Jon McCain's plan in 2009 right after Jon McCain lost his presidential election. This is the time when the GOP should have recognized that they just lost and worked with Obama to hammer out a deal. Even after the ACA passed they still operated on the idea that either Romney would beat Obama or SCOTUS would destroy ACA. Neither thing happened and the result is that the right gambled big and they lost. If they had won they'd be Tea Party heroes, but they didn't win and now you want to re-write history to say that really the GOP were the health care champions.