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No - I don't believe it's the Republicans fault. It's primarily the fault of the Democrats, for not including it. I pointed out the reality, though, which is that if the GOP hadn't decided to vote against it as a block, they could probably have gotten tort reform included.
Understand now?
Wrong. The Republicans were completely shut out of the process by Pelosi and Co. They asked for tort reform...Pelosi said fuck off.
CBO says tort reform reduces deficit - Washington Times
You understand now!?
Wrong. The Republicans announced relatively early in the process that they would vote as a block against any health-reform legislation that either included a mandate, or included any form of a public option, or several other "non-negotiables."
South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint (R) said back in July, "If were able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."
There was never any chance that the House Republicans were going to agree to any compromise, and they offered NOTHING in exchange for their demands for tort reform. And so they didn't get it.
Again - I'm not blaming them, in the end, it was a Democratic bill. But you're so intensely partisan, that you don't even understand that, if they were willing to compromise, they could probably have gotten tort reform as part of the bill.
In the end, they decided to vote, as an almost perfect block (a single Republican voted for it) against the bill.
Maybe I'm casting pearls before swine here, I don't know. Do you understand what "compromise" means? As in, "give up something you want, in order to get something else you want"?
Sure, lots of us understand 'compromise'. Do you understand the Constitution? The whole damned bill is unconstitutional. How can you compromise on whether it sits in the constitution?
If the Administration wanted Tort Reform, they should have included it. They didn't. Why not? They should not play politics with this fundamental bill - they either fucking well do it right or they don't. As is the usual way with both sides of this corrupt and stupid den of thieves, they play politics with the very foundations of our country and the people they are paid to represent.
Personally, I think every single last one of them should be kicked out.