Why not just skip the runaround and write a mandate in the bill that you have to vote for Democrats or you go to jail, since this is all they really care about anyway.

Oops! Sorry, time ran out! The Earth is doomed.
Go back to your lives, citizens
Nothing to see here...

Nice start, elephants, but it needs to be even SHORTER! (K-I-S-S)

Dontcha just love the way AP writes its stories?
"GOP leaders long ago decided to oppose the approach requested by Obama and taken by Democrats" instead of:
"GOP leaders stood on their core principles and refused to knuckle under to more big nanny-state government, taxation, and loss of personal freedoms"

Yeah, there's a good idea. Spend our tax dollars to prop up failing liberal propaganda machines. Indebt the news media to big government, and how hard do you think they will pursue corruption?
Cancel all of your newspaper subscriptions, people. Turn off the network news! Get your news from the NET until these lazy mouthpieces belly up or learn their lesson.