If you listen to that guy - throw himself on the alter of bipartisanship and give the Republicans everything they want to make them agree. Unfortunately, there are only 2-4 moderate left on the Republican side of the senate, everyone else has been replaced by a conservative Democrat, or an even more conservative Republican.
As much as I would like to see Congress working together, I agree that Republican demands are unreasonable (take out this thing that never existed in the first place!), and quite honestly, even if we did give in they would probably torpedo the compromise bill anyway. They have to make themselves look good somehow. I don't understand why more people don't see that they are playing Bullshit. It's perfectly obvious to me that they hold nothing.
Because a large portion of our media has a fondness for deification of bipartisanship, where it is better to have both sides to agree on something, then to get a intrinsically good bill out of Congress. Combine that with the Arguing to the Middle fallacy AKA "I say Black, you say White, thus the answer must be grey!" fallacy that is similarly popular in the media, and you get our current state of affairs.
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