Reply #22: Political will is not a magic wand.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

And what you describe still doesn't give us what we want. We turn off the spigot, either they or their seats turn Republican, and we lose and don't get anything we want. We don't turn off the spigot, we have no leverage and get 65-75% of what we want. You are not understanding that the bottom line is a lose-lose proposition unless we have votes to circumvent them, and with no Republicans crossing over, we don't have that.