Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by tw04 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:44PM (#25021991)

True. The ACA was after all, literally the republican plan straight from Mitt Romney, but Democrats were unwilling to negotiate or compromise. (Yes this is sarcasm, ACA was literally the Democrats meeting in the middle when they didn't even have to)

Everytime someone like you makes this claim I ask the same question: show some examples. "both sides are the same" is a weak excuse for supporting bad behavior. The Republicans haven't acted in good faith since about the early 90s.

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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by Steltek on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:25PM (#25022208)

Err, you meant Republicans were unwilling to compromise, right? Because the Democrats bent over backwards to introduce 160 Republican amendments to the ACA and even delayed votes to have more Republican voices heard during debate.

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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by tw04 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:32PM (#25022263)

It was tongue in cheek, apologies if that wasn't obvious.

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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by Steltek on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:26PM (#25022971)

Ah, yup, Poe's Law got me again. Sorry.

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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by mmaurizi on Sunday November 08, 2020 @06:13AM (#25024940)

I think this is a bit of historical revisionism. Yes there are some amendments in the bill from Republicans because Dems wanted a "bipartisan" bill even if they only got a handful of GOP reps (they ultimately got none).

But the Democrats couldn't have gotten a bill more left-wing through the senate. They tried, but various Dem senators stripped out both lowering the Medicare age and the public option.

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