The democrats had a super-majority. They had no need or reason whatever to haggle with republicans. They could have passed whatever they wanted.
You're correct. Democrats were naive and expected Republicans to act in good faith. They've learned that Republicans are corrupt and have no interest in helping the average citizen.
But they didn't want any real reforms. They were being paid to make sure no real reforms, happened. And so no real reforms happened.
Just not true. Its funny how right wing people are completely perplexed that any political can actually care for the people they represent. But that's the corruption of conservatism since the 90's under Gingrich. The fact is decent citizens want reforms in the USA and they vote for other decent people seeking office.
And instead, they fixed as little as they could get away with. While the republicans immediately started blaming any and every flaw on them. Even though is was a 20 year old republican plan they settled on.
Republicans created flaws that they then pointed to. It was criticized as socialized medicine. remember how Palin accused it of being a death panel? That's how Republicans approached this reform, disinformation and sabotage.
If you can't see the affect of legalized bribery on our legislature, nothing I bother to dig up will convince you. The lobbyists now commonly write the legislation, themselves, and hand it to their bought and paid for legislators to pass into law, often without ever even reading it. This is common behavior, and common knowledge. Legislators even admit it (occasionally). So how you missed it is beyond me.
I'm asking you to use real language, and make a coherent argument, not use exaggerations. If you have to exaggerate then you aren't very confident in your position.
Obama wanted universal health care. And he said so. But all those democrats magically fell into a stupor and just couldn't seem to figure our how to do that even though 30 other major nations have all managed it. We could simply have picked one and copied theirs.
You don't think that was an option? Insurance companies and Republicans had a fit, and referred to this huge reform as bad socialized medicine, and then used disinformation and scare tactics instead of working with Democrats to help people attain healthcare. That's how a government begins to fail.
Why do you think all those democrats suddenly became mentally incapacitated? Especially when every one of them was getting huge campaign contributions from the insurance lobby, and the pharmaceutical lobby, and the hospital conglomerate's lobby, and the medical manufacturer's lobby, and every other lobby related to health care.
And there's a great argument for why we need campaign reform. We need money out of politics. But the more Republicans pander to big money the more Democrats have to match the fund raising, and yes that means big donors will get more representation than the average citizen.
All of whom are desperately afraid of our establishing a national health care system because every other nation that has done so has realized that they had to set pricing limits to stop the rampant price-gouging that goes on in health care. And all these corporate entities involved in U.S. health care are making fortunes by price-gouging us for EVERYTHING involved in it. From insurance, to medication, to hardware to hospitals and doctors, to whatever.
Yup, it's a big racket. And who is out there talking reform of all this? It's not the Republicans who love their status quo. And if millions of citizens go without healthcare, they don't care.
Correction: Biden has been TALKING more like a liberal, lately. But keep in mind that he has not actually done anything but talk. And he knows he can blame his apparent inability to do anything on the republicans.
If you look at polling he's hit 63% approval, and that has a lot to do with how he's gotten vaccinations way ahead of schedule. He's been resetting the DOJ and the immigration system, which has become a huge crisis since Biden adopted trump's disastrous ICE. And Biden already set in motion reforms for the Secret Service, you probably didn't know this. Biden has been working to help settle the Israel and Palestinian conflict, and done well there. He's also setting up a transition from gas powered government vehicles to electric. That's just off the top of my head, so he's been busy not golfing.
So such talk is cheap and easy for him.
Irony.
For 30 years he's basically voted like a republican in the Senate. Because that's what kept the campaign money rolling in, that in turn kept him in office. He's a career political toady for those that paid his way. It's why the democratic party ran him. Because that's what they ALL are.
Times change, and people change with the times. Good for him and the USA for him seeing value in more progressive ideas. We needed a president who will take our challenges seriously.
I repeat: he has done NOTHING but talk.
Keep repeating it all you want. Facts tell us you're in error.
And since he knows he can't do much with the republicans choking the Senate, he can talk like a big fat liberal all he wants to, because he knows none of it is ever going to come to fruition. He can play Mr. "I'm for Joe Sixpack" and then blame the republicans for his having done absolutely nothing at all for Joe Sixpack his whole term as president. Just like he's done the last 30 years in the legislature.
You're letting your bias influence your posts too much. You offer no facts or argument here.
Biden has very well using his experience in the Senate to negotiate, and thus far he's doing a good job of it. His approval is over 15 points of trump's highest rate, which never hit 50%.
