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In reply to the discussion: Rachel had it Right, now DU is getting it wrong. [View all]The OP seems somewhat idealistic. The post would be fine if we didn't know how intransigent the repugs were in the President's first term. The day he was inaugurated in 2009 (documented in Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives." several big wig repugs, Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.), Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith, met and declared to oppose the President at every turn. And they did and the economy suffered as job biil after job bill was rejected by the repugs. We all have to remember them being invited several times to the White House with no resulting compromises. They even began saying they were too busy to come (Boenhner). And they've already signaled in this new term that they will remain obstructionists with both Boenhner and McConnell claiming to be asleep when the President reached out to them on election night. This is about Realpolitiks practical, real, conditions that actual exist not idealism and theory. The dems should used reconciliation to get their measures through because the repugs have already signaled they are more likely to double down on their right wing policies.