Re: comments
The current leadership of the Democratic Party is hard left. They decided to roll over the Republicans last summer on several issues, and the only problem was that it wasn't as easy as they thought it would be.
To a Democratic politician, "bipartisan" means Republicans doing exactly what the Democrats want. I don't consider refraining from socializing the entire medical industry a "middle ground" position.
Remember the first years of Bush with the Republican majority, and all you heard from the Democrats was how important it was not to shut out the minority party, and that power should be "shared?" How important to our freedom the filibuster was?