Heidi Alexander: “during our recent health care debate I heard a number of times from our friends on the other side of the aisle this…”

“during our recent health care debate I heard a number of times from our friends on the other side of the aisle this question: What are Republicans for? Well, they will wait a long time if they are waiting for the Republican leader, Senator McConnell, to roll into the Senate a wheelbarrow filled with a 2,700-page Republican comprehensive health care bill or, for that matter, a 1,200-page climate change bill or a 900-page immigration bill. If you have been listening carefully to the Senate debate, you will know that on health care, as well as on clean energy, debt reduction, and immigration, for example, Republicans have been offering the following alternative to 1,000-page bills: going step by step in the right direction to solve problems in a way that re-earns the trust of the American people. Comprehensive immigration, comprehensive climate change, and comprehensive health care bills have been well intended, but the first two fell of their own weight, and health care, if enacted, would be a historic mistake for our country and a political kamikaze mission for Democrats.”