Oh, for pete’s sake. Facing Republican determination to repeal Obamacare without a replacement lined up, gut ethics enforcement, and end Medicare as we know it, Democrats face a choice. As CNN puts it:
Democrats plotting a return from the political wilderness are facing their first big dilemma: how fiercely to fight President-elect Donald Trump.
Let me answer that for you: Fiercely. In the way that, back in 2010, Elizabeth Warren said she wanted the fight for a strong Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to go: “plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor.”
These are the choices: fight—or lie down and let yourself be crushed. And it’s no exaggeration to say that millions of lives are at stake in this fight. That means definitely not listening to former Republican Charlie Crist:
Crist said his voters told him, "'Charlie, if you win, you guys have got to work together up there to do what's right for the American people,'" he told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" on Sunday. "They've had it up to here with the divisiveness and the arguing."
Sounds nice, but Republicans don’t want to do what’s right for the American people, so there’s no working with them to do that. And Republicans don’t want to work with Democrats. The choices are fighting or capitulating, and you might lose the fight, but there’s no way to win by capitulating.
Blood and teeth on the floor, guys.