You're right, everyone wants to put their own agenda through in the easiest way possible - that's human nature, but the difference is the Dems invite ideas to the table for discussion, including from the GOP and the GOPs ideas are, for lack of a better term, nonsensical. You remember that video awhile back (a couple weeks) where Obama went to a GOP meeting and totally worked them over? It was in the news, all over the place with headlines about how 'Obama walks into the lions den and slays all the lions' - Watch that and you'll see what I'm talking about. I did, and he totally routed them. The GOP on the other hand, dismisses any ideas but their own... you know how bad it's become. The GOP will attack anything and everything that isn't labeled GOP - regardless of the ideas. GOP slams rep who just became a Republican