[adbullock]

What I really don't get and can't begin to understand is why there is such a HUGE push to pass this bill that no one likes. I'm not talking about Republicans or voters even. I'm not using skewed polls. No one likes this bill. Even Pelosi and Reid are telling us they don't like it. They want to make their next priority a push to change it.

If it's so terrible why not get it right and THEN work to pass it?

This reconciliation BS is a leap towards a Constitutional crisis and potential repeal. Why is it they can't go back to the drawing board and come up with something that at least SOME people like before voting on it. Those who oppose abortion funding hate it. Those who favor universal health care hate it. Those who want tort reform hate it. Anyone who is interested in working to reduce the deficit despises it. There is bipartisan hatred for this bill and yet the mad scramble by Democrats to pass a bill they don't even like, that they know is likely to cost them reelection completely baffles me. Can anyone tell me what they're getting out of this other than royally screwing the middle class?