On Sep 2, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> 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.
I said "symbolic." Of course it sucks on the substance. But they're not even pretending to be anything but scumbags now.
Doug