, Columnist
America's Empathy Failure on Obamacare
Why can't Republicans and Democrats put themselves into each other's shoes?
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I am suffering from an incorrigible urge to quote myself at great length. Here I am on the Republicans' push in August 2011 to shut down the government in order to get their way:
The same thing seems to have happened this time around. Against all evidence, the more ardent Republicans think that they are writing the script, and Democrats have no choice but to go along. Too many people seem never to have pondered the possibility that Democrats care just as much about Obamacare as Republicans do, and are therefore willing to be just as completely intransigent.