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08/19/09
Liberal rage is actually high enough to do something constructive for once, such as scaring the Blue Dog Dems into falling in line.
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My question is: what makes you think a bill with a public option passes now? Again, the Dems just need to get to 50, but the senators who stand in their way don't have much incentive to cooperate. Lincoln and Conrad, both of whom are on the Senate Finance Committee, which is crafting a bill) are up for re-election next year in red-leaning states. (Lincoln's home state, Arkansas, went for McCain by twenty-plus points in November.) The White House doesn't have a ton of leverage with them.
Yes, their interests are provincial and about their own self-preservation, but this is a structural problem with the Senate, where meaningful legislation can be held up or killed by lawmakers from sparsely populated, rural states.
So my question is: where exactly do you think the other votes come from?
Also, re: the Dean 50-state thing... Yeah, Dean should get props for crafting that strategy, but that strategy doesn't work in 2008 absent Obama. If HRC gets the nod, you get your traditional base-on-base general election, with traditionally red states staying red and blue states staying blue.
08/19/09
When I hear a resounding chorus of "No" I lay the pain on them. I have been known to bring people to tears.
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The whole tenor of this convo depresses me. I hope the Obama team really is going to be more aggressive, although there's only so much you can do against people who are determined to be fuckin' idiots.
08/19/09
Also I'm sorry, I am really coming to despise Rahm. I feel like he's more concerned with getting and keeping power than effectuating any real change. Maybe he's about to "go to work" to get this bill passed, we'll see and if it happens I will admit how wrong I've been, but frankly he could have/should have been pressing hard on this from the get go. He said from DAY ONE that the public option was "negotiable." I'm sorry but for me personally that is unacceptable. He's not a political genius, I don't buy his hype. Howard Dean was pressing for the 50 state strategy and Rahm ridiculed him for it. Well guess who's 50 state strategy payed off in 2008?
/end Rahm rant
08/19/09
I can't wait to smell what the Rahm is cooking
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08/19/09
WE'RE JUST EXPRESSING OUR GRIEF, OKAY.
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08/19/09
I mean Hitler was responsible for the death of 6 million Jews and 5 million undesirables.
Obama has probably jacked off 11 million sperms and his baby mama has had many abortions. Not to mention whilst with his Comrades in Arms.
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08/19/09
"Dear Sen. Grassley [or whomever],
I will be your father figure, put your tiny hand in mine. You can sit at the grown-up table when you agree to eat your lima beans.
Barry"