Reply #13: That's sort of the problem. Democrats could never agree because there are right wing Democrats.

[Selatius]

Simply because right wing Democrats acted as obstructionists to progressive legislation. Only whitewashed or muddled bills could get through. This is why Mitt Romney's proposition for health care overhaul became the basic template for national health care "reform." The rightists would never let anything to the left of that pass, and they had the votes to guarantee that outcome.