Since when is working together a bad thing? Why do Republicans want the sand box all to themselves? This is not a way to run a country. We need to be bipartisan.

While we are not at the end yet of whether the Republican-led Senate can pass their own version of health care reform, it is striking that Senate Majority Leader McConnell threatened his members that if they did not pass their own version of health care reform, then they would have to reach a bipartisan health care bill with the help of the "dreaded" Democrats. This echoes a sentiment from Speaker Ryan who also expressed a reluctance to work with the opposition. Since when is working together a bad thing. This is truly juvenile, bordering on treasonous behavior. We are not a one party country and the Republicans can not have this "we have the sandbox" attitude and not work with the Democrats to move the country forward.

Since the Clinton Administration, the Republican Party has largely adopted a "the hell with the country" approach and obstructed most Clinton, and later Obama initiatives, even those that blended Republican ideals (Obamacare). They even obstructed and stole a Supreme Court seat and threatened to politicize Obama Administration revelations about Russian Meddling in the 2016 election. Why the people in the middle of the country tend to reward this obstructionism has been discussed in earlier posts and is honestly a mystery. The people and its leaders should behave better.

We need to have a bipartisan government. There is no political party that has the monopoly on good ideas. With the recent investigation into voter fraud, there is a drift on the right towards totalitarianism. We need to steer away from this abyss, get rid of the people that think the word bipartisan is a bad word and get new leaders who put our country first.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-health-care-a-promise-not-a-threat-1498776862

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/paul-ryan-democrats-health-care/index.html

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/republican-party-obstructionism-victory-trump-214498

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-22/what-republicans-obstruction-costs-them

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/opinions/voter-rolls-demand-douglas/index.html

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/340348-trump-on-states-denying-voter-data-what-are-they-trying-to-hide

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.880687f1b9f3