This opposition cannot be appeased.That's exactly true. And I have to hope that President Obama knows what he's doing in continuing his dance with the extremists, including supposed "centrist," Charles Grassley. These people are stabbing him in the back. Like it or not, there's no bipartisan heaven just up the road.
The time for kicking ass has come. President Obama has the power to do it if he chooses.
But, as Krugman says,
What’s still missing, however, is a sense of passion and outrage — passion for the goal of ensuring that every American gets the health care he or she needs, outrage at the lies and fear-mongering that are being used to block that goal.Please, please, please, Mr. President. Take these despicable Republicans down. And get the job done for the American people.
You wanted to be president to bring "change we can believe in." You're there ... Now do it!
