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What if the Republicans in the Senate blocked passage of the current bill on a filibuster, crushing the signature legislative goal of the Obama presidency? What if Mr. Really-Smart -But-Not-So-Wise got pissed off for the first time in his life, looked over the edge and into the abyss of his failed one-term presidency, didn't at all like what he saw, and then started playing hard ball, throwing elbows, naming names, and treating his and America's enemies like they were -- golly, could it be? -- actually enemies? What if he and Democrats in Congress wrote a real healthcare bill, one that was really about providing health to Americans, not wealth to corporations? What if they actually used their majorities and their presidency to make it law, rolling over a Republican objection to their use of the reconciliation process as an end-run to a Senate filibuster, just like Bush and the Republicans did to Democrats all across the last decade?
Now that would certainly make losing on this current go-round more than worth it.
But, of course, for that to happen, Democrats would actually have to have some guts.
Unfortunately, "Democrats' and "guts' are two words that have not been used in the same sentence -- other than in opposition to each other -- for nearly fifty years now.
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