[quote=SK in CV][quote=Allan from Fallbrook] That was the basis for my questions to you (still unanswered, I might add) as to why the Dems aren’t swinging a fucking axe at Wall Street.[/quote]

I’ll take a swing at that one. To quote Will Rogers, I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a democrat.

It’s been pretty consistent over the last 20 years. When they have a popular plan (like real health care reform), rather than do more of it, they do less. They negotiate, make concessions, and get nothing in return. They could propose a bill almost entirely written by republicans and still not get any republican support. (Again, see the HIR bill that DID pass) If there was a prosecutor for such things, it would be political malpractice. And of course, the same element, though to only a slightly lesser extent, that guides the Republicans. Bought and paid for by Wall Street.[/quote]

SK: Good answer. As a former self-loathing Republican, I cannot stand either party, but stand amazed at the Democrat’s inability to get anything done and they’re holding the whip hand!

While I think Republican resistance to the Healthcare bill was both repulsive and unselfconsciously ironic (given that you’re correct about its provenance as a largely Republican construct), its now par for the course in terms of the demagogery running rampant on the Hill.

I think we’ve now devolved into groupings of Balkanized irredentists, completely unable to see anyone’s view(s) but our own and riven by the Roves and Carvilles of the world.