Reply #5: It'll be slightly more sophisticated. You've probably heard this one before:

[Selatius]

So they want to support a measure that is likely to pass Congress and get signed by the president, but you know it's a lot of crap. They say that it's the best that we can do now, so if you give us your vote for the package, we'll promise to look at it again down the road, but they don't tell you what concessions they're willing to offer back to you or when they are willing to entertain reviewing the package being proposed.

It's sort of like how the whole health care reform thing is going. There's a lot of bullshit in the bill, and they want you to vote for it for the few good bits in it on the premise that it'll be fixed better down the road, but there is a lack of a goodwill gesture on the part of conservative leaning interests within the party to demonstrate sincerity.

After all, they have been pretty disingenuous insisting that the single-payer option is not doable because of American "culture" even though polls consistently show plurality or even majority support for a single-payer plan.