Dems Still Dumb, Notwithstanding Earlier Glimmer

I mentioned here how Democrats might finally be deciding to go "fully partisan" on the Healthcare plan because no matter how much they negotiated downwards with Republicans on the Healthcare Bill, no Republican would vote for any Democrat bill whatsoever: The original bill that Republicans hated with a fiery passion had an equal chance of passage as a compromise bill that Republicans only marginally hated.

Here's your proof.

CNN has learned that – barring some unforeseen change — Democratic Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus will unveil a health care proposal Wednesday without the support of the three Republican senators — Charles Grassley, Mike Enzi and Olympia Snowe — he's been negotiating with for months. ... Wednesday, when the Senate Finance Chairman unveils his bill, all indications are he will be doing it without the support of Republicans he has spent hundreds of hours negotiating with.

To sum it up, the Democrats wimpishly gutted their own historically-large piece of Healthcare legislation on the always-false hopes of getting a few Republicans to vote for it, all for nothing... which was exactly what was expected.

Here is a word that I've co-opted from the field of mathematics: Idempotent. Idempotent is an adjective that describes an action which, if repeated, does not bring further results, or improve upon the original results from the first time the action is made. Repeatedly pressing the fast-forward button on your tape recorder to make it go faster is an idempotent action. Washing your hands repeatedly is an idempotent action. Negotiating your healthcare bill downward and downward and downward with Republicans hoping to win their support is another.