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Conyers: As with impeachment, so with single payer

Mon, 11/09/2009 - 11:53pm — lambert

Arthur urges us to go read David Swanson on...

... how and why John Conyers, once an admirable politician in many ways, slowly and inevitably surrendered certain key principles that Conyers himself had repeatedly declared to be of supreme importance to him.

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. And as for surrender of key principles...

Well, look. Surely it's more important to get some bill, any bill, than to worry about poor women, coat-hangars, and sepsis? After all, incremental improvement is always possible! And heck, we're only using them as a bargaining chip, so stop being hysterical.

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Conyers was once an advocate of just elections

By gqmartinez on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 10:05am

But he didn't seem to care about the rigged Dem primary.

The first major compromise is always the hardest. After that its SOP. Nothing about Dems surprises me anymore.

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Only tyrants rig elections.

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