Read my below post.
There have been republican bills put forth. They're pointless. Its idiotic, illogical, and frankly a waste of effort for Republicans to massively try to push fully their version of thinsg right now because its just frankly going to be extremely improbable to pass. Point blank. That's it. its like trying to go ahead and play a 60 minute basketball game with a single player on your team against a fully stacked team on the other side. Sure, there's a tiny fraction of a chance, but in all reality its just not going to happen.
Beyond that, there's no big point or incentive right now to talk about other factors of the vote in any major way....however its pure ignorance or willful ignoring of things to claim that there is absolutely no republican, either joe voter or elected official, that hasn't or isn't talking about forms of health care reform they'd be in favor of. There is a giant, huge, MAMMOTH sized wall at the forefront of this in regards to the public option. And its pointless for either side to really massively discuss anything else until that gets solved one way or another because all that talk will be for naught. The Democrats are likely not going to have enough votes at this moment to get something passed that doesn't include a public option in some form, and Republicans are not going to agree to any bill that has a Public Option. So any talk of other things to compromise on or move forward on would actually be rather fruitless and just as much "playing politics" as anything else because it'd be them flapping their gums for no other reason than to try and say "See, we were TRYING something" when in reality both sides know diddly is going to be done due to the big giant Wall in between them.
Republicans are not against reform by and large. There are republican sponsored bills and amendments. There have been Republicans both elected and non-elected in numerous places talking about various ideas for reform. I can't think of a large amount of republicans that have sat here and gone "absolutely no reform of any kind at all" or "absolutely no compromise of any kind at all", but that simply they're not going to budge in regards to a public option.
And if you're trying to say that the Public Option is the only way you can have reform, and if you're against a bill with that then you're against reform, then frankly that's no less playing politics than Demint because the notion that that's the "only" form of Reform at all and anyone against it is against reform is absolutely asinine.
