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Avedon Carol: Progressives led down Corporatist path of words

Submitted by jawbone on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 2:01pm

and premises to defend Obama's mandate and profit protection plan for big health industry players (BHIP).

http://sideshow.me.uk/sjun12.htm#1206301613

Yes, best of lefties can be conned into using the arguments of big corporations and the right. That is not a win for the left, in case they haven't figured it out by now. But it does underline the strength of the right in our national discourse: It's their talking points, their lingo that gets into the general discourse.

Keep looking around; lots of good stuff. I found audio of a 2006 interview David Sirota had with Obama, where Obama lays out what he actually got enacted. He said he would have done structural change if that was the only way to achieve his goal, but he doesn't think that's the case, so Romney's plan looked good to him even then. (And he has not improved all that much in his delivery of ideas since then -- the brief snippet is filled with ers, hems, haws, uh's. But blessedly brief.)

http://www.am760.net/player/?mid=22208102

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Submitted by Avedon on

And thanks, Lambert, for really grossing me out with that Perlstein article. You're right, it's repulsive.

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Submitted by lambert on

I believe the word that I used on FaceBook was "vile." However, because I am such a sweet tempered guy, I refrained from actually posting my comment to his wall.

IMNSHO one way to look at ObamaCare -- as a creature of the emerging market state -- is that it's a total repudiation of "an injury to one is an injury to all." It's total "Fuck you, Jack, I bought mine." And who would have thunk it, the career progressives are totally on board with this. (One of the reasons, though I should double check and don't have time, that Perlstein's argument is so vicious is that he converts "free rider" (an economic term of art) to "free loader," which is, in essence, the Randroid "moocher.")

And tossing the ball to somebody who might want to post on this:

One might note by researching Perlstein's co-writer that she's part of in IL-based health care activist group that is expert in collecting health care stories from people. In one of the "Election Countdown" post-ObamaCare decision, Lynn Sweet says that storytelling will be the Obama campaign's strategy for selling it (I add, exactly like the conversion narratives of 2008).

So I wouldn't be surprised if this, in addition to a classic "kick the left" piece, was not also angling for the story-telling collection contract. Ick!!!!

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