Yankee, you may have worked constructively on healthcare as a senator, but I tend to doubt that the GOP ever intended to cooperate in any way on healthcare.
Not that I demand that, that's perfectly fine as they're a pathetic minority, which shouldn't have any influence on the legislative process anyway.
Only thing is the Democratic caucus needs to hold its votes together.
Like you'd say that if Republicans were in power 
I would indeed. That's the point of democracy.
The U.S. is not a democracy, sorry.
Indeed; his argument would have held even more water if he had said that the US is a republic. If you're going to attack him for not making his argument strong enough, be my guest, but you look like an idiot.
Your post doesn't even make sense. I think you should look in the mirror.
It should be blatantly obvious.
In a democratic system, governance results from a strict majority vote of the people. In such a case, strictly speaking, compromise is not necessary except to garner majority support. However, compromise probably would be necessary on almost everything in the US if each proposal were to require majority support among the populace at large.
However, the US is a republic. Instead of voting on everything, we elect representatives who vote on things for us. Once again, governance results form a strict majority, but this time, that strict majority is the majority of representatives rather than the majority of the people. the majority of representatives need not even represent a majority will nationally--often, in fact, they do not.
The politicians in office are free to form whatever coalitions for majorities that they want in a republic. In this particular case of the US, those coalitions consist of the Democrats and the Republicans. They are certainly permitted to form coalitions outside of this formulation in order to pass certain legislation, but that runs contrary to their internal attempts to form permanent working coalitions in order to govern. A republican system consisting entirely of the politically unaffiliated inevitably collapses because it is unable to agree on anything without each individual demanding further concessions to his or her own position--it's the prisoner's dilemma writ large. The party coalitions are the only thing that prevent such a prisoner's dilemma situation from taking over by creating a social environment that encourages cooperation within coalition groups.
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