--*What Ended Our Marriage and/or Health-Care Reform?

What factors led to the end of our marriage and/or the end of health care reform legislation in Congress?

--*We failed to articulate our goals to each other.

--*We kept fighting over money.

--*There was a lot of mutual suspicion about what the other side wanted.

--*We turned to outsiders for help and they turned out to have their own selfish interests.

--*One side didn't know how to think for him or herself unless Glenn Beck told him or her first.

--*...or Oprah.

--*We weren't sure how to handle the necessary abortion issue.

--*Every time we tried to talk about things reasonably it deteriorated into shouting matches.

--*Each of us accused the other of patronizing and sabotaging the other in public.

--*There was a lot of increasingly nonsensical, paranoid and loony right-wing talk coming from one side.

--*"I don't need another mother."

--*"I don't need another father."

--*Turns out one of us was a racist.