Reply #5: An excellent O.P. with one quibble.

[Uncle Joe]

I can't bring myself to believe passage of this HCR Law to be "fighting back" in any way, shape or form, in spite of a Republican Filibuster; real or threatened.

It was professional wrestling, Kabuki Theater, good cops/bad cops playing for the same Corporatist Party.

The Republicans are as happy as pigs in slop with this passing because it benefited their De Facto primary corporate constituents; a despised institution, without costing the GOP; politically, no fingerprints of theirs are on this.

They pleaded for the Democratic Party not to throw them in to the brier patch and that's exactly what the Democrats did, now the Republicans are laughing because the "Party of the People" lost the moral high ground by falling in to the trap of institutionalizing corporate supremacy rights over the people.

The right for "health" insurance casinos to profit exceeded the right of the American People to obtain health care.

Had the Democrats passed universal single payer coverage or at least a strong national public option, that would have been fighting back, this was a rollover.

Thanks for the thread, CrisisPapers.