Democrats are another Republican Party.

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badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

Bingo. He screwed up by even trying bipartisan leadership after the Republicans clearly indicated that they wanted nothing more than to be wreckers, to avert legislative agendas and then blame the Democrats for Republican intransigience

Should've tightened the leash in the Democratic party too, really. Then we'd have a real health care bill to resemble a real country's health care system, not this middle-of-the-road crap

Obama knew very well how fierce partisanship is in D.C., and despite his campaign trail promises to change the tone, poisoned the well immediately after taking office when he said, "Shut up. I won." He had no intention of working with Republicans, and the idea that he wasted all kinds of time trying to reach out to them is just fiction. Trying to get Olympia Snowe to vote for your agenda =/= bipartisanship.

LOL.  This is the revisionist history of Republicans on how things happened.  Reality tells a different story.  If you think the Republicans were ready to compromise and were willing to help Obama, you weren't paying attention.  The reason they went to Snowe and a few other moderate Republicans was because after a while they finally woke up and realized that all they were getting was stonewalled and that there was no chance for compromise from anyone else in the republican party.

I love that Republicans basically tried to block EVERYTHING Obama and the dems tried to do and yet republicans still blame the other side for not compromising.  Now that they will have the house, they may actually have to compromise more as they will be partly responsible for what laws are passed.