"I'm just an idiotic left-wing blogger, so what do I know."

[kpete]

All Together Now: Shut Up You Lefties!
posted by Kai Wright on 01/04/2010 @ 3:24pm

You see, lefties? You can't hold your leaders accountable, because it's the nameless, faceless "system" that's to blame. Which is pretty much the same street-corner logic that leads millions of people to opt out of democracy altogether. Either the presidency matters or it doesn't. Either our leaders are accountable for the policies they create or they are not. And if they are not, let's drop the conceit of democracy and take the reform debate from there....

There have been many irrational, uncooperative participants in the health care debate: The industries that have profited immensely from the broken status quo, the just-say-no Republicans and the handful of conservative Democrats who have enlarged themselves by standing in the way of real reform, to name a few. The left, on the other hand, has embraced compromise after compromise -- and the result is we've all squandered a rare political opportunity to make sweeping changes rather than tinker at the margins. Forgive me if I can't fix my mouth to call that historic. But I'm just an idiotic left-wing blogger, so what do I know.

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[Lilith Velkor]

1. It's not compromise if only one side is expected to do it

That would be conquest.

[gratuitous]

2. And whenever I hear "we can't do that"

I remember the way the Terri Schiavo legislation got ram-rodded through Congress, how Chimpy cut short one of his innumerable vacations to rush back to Washington to sign the bill, and hey presto! a new law was born in a matter of hours. If they want something done, it gets done. Since true health care reform seems to be dying a-borning, what can we conclude?