Reply #74: No, of course he wouldn't have

[Lydia Leftcoast]

But I bet that if he had, by some weird miracle, decided to propose single payer, he would have pushed it through.

That seems to be what Republicans do. Even if you don't agree with their agenda, you have to give them points for not letting objections from Democrats stop them.

Democrats compromise themselves to death and end up with a bill that Bush could have supported--all private sector, all the time, with tax money flowing to the corporations in a never-ending stream.