sorry, but the dems have only ever sought compromise in trying to put bills together. All you have to do to see this unassailable fact is to examine the last 3+ decades of public records regarding federal bills that have been discussed. I mean, you could also just listen to people like Newt Gingrich and of course Mitch who very publicly, and very unambiguously declared that their official platform is to block every single democrat piece of legislation, period. No compromise, no discussion.
Hell, we're pretty much in "this mess" because Billy Clinton, probably the most recent actual conservative president, compromised too much with the GOP during his presidency in passing darling conservative bills, to seek bipartisanship. Again, a simple fact of history. Then the dems did it again with a rather large piece of legislation, the very-conservative ACA, directly from the brain child of decades of conservative think-tankery, but of course has been labeled an enemy by the republicans--their very own bill--because they must put a D in front of it so that they can train their brains to hate it.
Republicans don't listen. They don't read. They don't discuss. They just hate and block. Pretty much all they are capable of doing.
