Why Negotiate with Terrorists?

Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (who is the chief GOP negotiator on health care reform) says he'll vote against any reform legislation, even if he gets everything he wants in the bill. What this means of course, is that it's Democrats who are going to kill health care reform. Their efforts to water down the legislation to appease transparently intransigent Republicans is only going to result in weak tea, weak tea that the Republicans will then blame Democrats for passing.

The best strategy at this point is should be to go all-in, use that 59-41 majority to pass comprehensive health care reform with a strong public option (in lieu of single-payer, which unfortunately remains a political non-starter) and make the Republicans filibuster.

I mean, what's the friggin point of even dealing with these people?