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Obama and the Democrats don't have a bipartisan fetish

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 9:03am — Randall Kohn

That's the title of a recent OpenLeft comment from The Big Hurt. Continuing:

they don't care about bipartisanship

they just use it as a front for their corporate sellouts

What else is there to say?

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What else is there to say?

By rrot on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:16am

Just this:

Duh!

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I feel so... So...

By lambert on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:49am

So used.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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also holds for

By dblhelix on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:22am

Blue Dogs
Pro-Life Dems

Note that Stupak is conveniently providing cover for the "no amendments" route which, OMG! ensures that no progressive action on Med +5% is possible.

OMG!

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Or the Kucinich Amendment

By lambert on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:25am

God, the Dems suck. As do their "progressive" enablers, just not so hard.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Chris Floyd had the definitive take down

By lambert on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:27am

Here:

The Reason for the Anger and Intractability of the Debate Over Health Care Reform in the United States:
One side is lying; the other side is not telling the truth.

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Or to put it another way: One side is pretending that a wildly reactionary plan to further enrich rapacious corporations is really hardcore, gutbucket socialism from the Bolshevik trenches, while the other side is pretending that its "reform" is not really a wildly reactionary plan to further enrich rapacious corporations but something that will somehow, in some way, be good for some people at some point way down the line.

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One often finds that dealing in such utter unreality makes it somewhat difficult to achieve workable solutions to real-life problems.

No shit.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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all meaningful health care debate moves to the states

By DCblogger on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 3:04pm

the Kucinich amendment merely made state single payer plans easier; it is not necessary. The Democrats have made a huge error. Also progressive bloggers.

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Well, there have been successful lawsuits based on ERISA...

By lambert on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 6:33pm

... so I'd say it is necessary.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Next, you'll be telling me Obama is not the next FDR!

By Davidson on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 8:20pm

Lies!

Honestly, I haven't been able to trust anyone who fell for the phantom "public option" or ever felt frustrated with Obama for pursuing so-called "bipartisanship." Then again, a lot of these people are the same ones who fell for the Obama phenomenon last year.

The FAIL has always been deliberate.

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