DC would probably find a way to mess that up too.
Yeah but no one is willing to discuss that as a viable scenario, when it was all along a valid option.
I agree that shouldn't have had to happen to keep things moving, but it is still an option that the dems could have taken to keep the government running.
And the ACA is not very popular among the general populace right now. Even in the article about it someone posted with an interview with Bill Clinton, he admitted that it isn't what the people wants, but he takes a Nolan stance and just says "but it's what they need, they just don't know it right now, it will be great down the road". Didn't know he was a prophet, but then again this fight is taking on religious undertones wherein logic has no sway.
Notice all of the arguments on JF for it have centered around Obama or others being re-elected on a platform that includes healthcare reform, but no one has stated that the american people voted outright for obamacare. It is always a begs the question scenario, and a real stretch at that. Obamacare in its current form didn't even exist during any of those elections, so how can anyone with the ability to reason claim that the american people defacto voted for EXACTLY this version when they voted in Obama. Maybe that is true for that one individual making the claim, but that hardly makes it true for everyone.
And no one has chosen to address the point that this all changed when the provision was added to force everyone to participate, and that this is the sticking point of the GOP originally. Yes the tea party has taken it to "terrorist" levels to quote franklin, and I agree with that assessment largely, but that doesn't absolve everyone else of the responsibility to keep things moving and doing what is best for the american people.
That said, maybe what is best for the american people right now is EXACTLY what is happening. Maybe this will force people in both parties to reconsider such hardline stances and will change the way people vote. Maybe we can get the tea party jerks out of office as the american people see their true colors, and maybe it will be a catalyzing agent to get the electorate to pay more attention to what is going on rather than just voting on sound bites.
