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.

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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.  Read more 

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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