General Discussion

I still consider myself a moderate democrat, (or used to by today’s ideological standards). Now I guess I’m a radical leftist.

All I expected was a coherent strategy to preserve one of the more significant pieces of healthcare legislation in over half a century. I didn’t necessarily expect democrats to win, because the other party wants to burn the country to ashes, but if you’re going to start a fight, you see it through, or at least extract some concessions from the other side, or let the other side make a really drastic move like resorting to the nuclear option.

This didn’t even feel ideological. It’s just looked like a cop out. It made the party look feckless and incompetent. Why the dog and pony show in the first place? They could have rolled over and played dead weeks ago.