Collective Conscious

This tweet from the Sen­ate GOP feed is amaz­ing. Quot­ing Hatch, it claims:

“There’s been no real effort to get together on the things we can get together on. The atti­tude has been take it or leave it.”

How can we allow Repub­li­cans to get away with this? The Demo­c­ra­tic leg­isla­tive team has bent over back­wards to include every sen­si­ble pro­posal from the GOP cau­cus, going so far as to estab­lish a White House web­page list­ing all the Repub­li­can ideas that have been included in the health bill. The bill itself is almost iden­ti­cal to the 1993 Repub­li­can pro­posal, as well as to the pack­age that Mitt Rom­ney and Scott Brown have lauded for its suc­cess in Massachusetts.

The pro­posal that’s passed through both houses of Con­gress is emi­nently bipar­ti­san, even if Repub­li­cans won’t admit it.