Via Big Media Matt (who is auditioning to be Versailles’ next Richard Cohen) comes this bright idea hyped by Ezra Klein

Preferential Interests

For example, Nader's "Medicare For All", which I and all other progressives agree would have an actual chance if there were 60 votes in the House. As it is, we probably won't be able to enact it. This is the fruit of Naderism.

That is not the fruit of Naderism, that is the fruit of arrogant only-think-they-know-it-alls.

I think we can be fairly certain that no “Medicare for all” bill will be forthcoming.

We'll see about that.

Our biggest obstacle in the struggle for single payer are the members of our coalition who are willing to give up before they even try.

Booman

Another way of putting this is that Barack Obama would prefer a single-payer system but that it is politically impossible to get it done at the moment and he isn't going to let people go without health insurance just because health coverage is a theoretically better solution.

The headline for today's installment would have to be something like: ...

"Lively Political Discourse Dead In America, Democratic Governance, The Life Of The Mind To Follow, Sooner Rather Than Later."

Okay, so I'm not a headline writer.

The "hour's," (more like half that time, deducting commercials and George's feel-good celebrity segment at the show's end), most remarkable aspect was the evidence through-out of the ease and speed with which George Stephanopoulos has made the transition to gasbag extraordinaire, which is now total and complete: Could he care less about facts? Could he care less about clarity? Could he care less about being fair to the center left? Could he be more a creature of beltway buzz and conventional wisdom? Could he care less about journalistic integrity?

No, No, No, No, and No. He could not.

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