On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> But even if not, the fact is that dropping it is dropping nothing
>> important. The Obamacons are completely right to be baffled as to why
>> the left cares so much about it.
>
> It's mostly symbolic. The PO was the last gesture the Dems made towards
> decency. They're now chucking it. That makes them pure 100% scumbags,
> unwilling even to pretend otherwise.
This makes no sense to me. If the whole health care reform itself is bad, then PO won't make it good. We should be against the whole thing period.
And if the healthcare reform is halfway to something we want, then it's not 100% scummy, and worth attaining by giving up a mere gesture.
Michael