# 2010: How Democrats lost the Battle, but won the War

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-how-democrats-lost-the-battle-but-won-the-war/560085>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 9, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-how-democrats-lost-the-battle-but-won-the-war/560085 "2010-11-09T20:19:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-how-democrats-lost-the-battle-but-won-the-war/560085/21 "2010-11-13T20:09:35Z")

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> [@davidm](#):
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> > [@Simplicio](#):
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> > …To paraphrase a commenter whose much funnier then Bill Maher, some liberals seem like they’d much prefer to pass a bill that sent a Secret Service agent to the house of every Health Insurance exec to kick them as hard as possible in the nuts rather then a bill that helped insure Americans that couldn’t afford coverage.
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> Can we do both? 😛

It’s a jobs bill! It’s social insurance!

Yeah, why fight it? A new federal dep’t of nut-kicking will be part of my platform.

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