Republicans take tips from Obama, Hillary Clinton on how not to pass a bill

With the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964-65, Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson gave us precedents as to how to behave when trying to pass historic and world-changing measures.

First of all, you don’t do it quickly, but slowly and carefully. Second, you don’t move before you know you appeal to a broad base of people. Third, you have to make it bipartisan, because nothing that isn’t has moral authority. There is no type of reform that does not cause disruption, and bipartisanship is protection of sorts from the accusations of callousness that will surely ensue.