The Individual Mandate albatross: Whole packages only as popular as their least popular provision

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5. the bet was that GOP would fold under pressure from big $$ insurers/pharma/etc

that, the "real constituency" of 1%-er campaign donors would do the heavy lifting to put the Republicans back in their box.

when this was happening (behind closed doors, no less) we jumped up and down trying to get the party to see it was a mistake. but we don't matter. we don't cut checks, and that seems to impair their hearing.

Cenk is absolutely right about this, as are you: you can't work with Republicans b/c they don't operate on the same principles that we do. there's no "good faith." there's no "compromise." there's winning at all costs, by any means...and by "winning" they mean to crush The People into dust until there's nothing left b/c apparently nothing short of this will satisfy their Dark Donorlords.