Re: Senate Healthcare Bill Released
Trying to do what they were sent to do would be making a bill that both parties will agree on. Both parties instead make legislation that they know the other will disagree with so they can say : " look they are against saving babies. " or " they hate the military."
There is a problem with your position. In essence the Democrats did that with the ACA. They took what was for a long time the Republican plan and adapted it. Everyone knows Democrats really believe it should be single-payer system for all. So, trying to get something done, they brought in the ACA, which was an adaptation of Romney's successful Republican healthcare plan in Massachusetts.
So this bill, which is to fix the problems with the ACA because they had no input from Republicans to get buy-in on the first go around, is an attempt to fix a Republican plan that was enacted by Democrats. I am not sure you can say that isn't an attempt to work with the other side. Oh, it is also important to remember that Yertle the Turtle decided the Republicans weren't going to work with Obama no matter the subject, and decided to stick his obstructionist head in the sand.
Maybe I misunderstood your point, but where exactly is all of this "both sides are only interested in making the other look bad" stuff coming from?
Now, that isn't to say that the Democrats have not been dragging their feet on stuff for Trump. But when you look at both the House and Senate versions of the health care bills, there is absolutely no way you can even pretend to say that it isn't just a victory lap by the Republicans where they will remove insurance from > 20M Americans that currently have it, to give a tax break to 400 households and some large corporations.