Editorial: No compromise on health care

Pub date September 9, 2009
WriterTim Redmond
SectionPolitics Blog

By Tim Redmond

It’s not hard to find suggestions for how President Obama should handle his speech tonight. Maybe the speech isn’t all that important anyway — it’s what the president does afterward.

But our line on it is simple: The Democrats have compromised enough. The Republicans have no credibility here and there isn’t going to be a bipartisan solution. So Obama needs to fight to win.