Comments on: The acceptable Public Option: You have to volunteer http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2009/11/the-acceptable-public-option-you-have-to-volunteer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-acceptable-public-option-you-have-to-volunteer Orange County's top political blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:35:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Vern Nelson http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2009/11/the-acceptable-public-option-you-have-to-volunteer/comment-page-1/#comment-110043 Vern Nelson Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:29:43 +0000 http://orangejuiceblog.com/?p=31164#comment-110043 There are very few things to smile or laugh about these days, but one of them could be the sheer comedy of Terry's (and his mentors Rush, Glenn & Fox's) hysteria over Obama's socialism/communism. As one European leader commented to our President with great puzzlement, "In Europe you'd be considered a conservative." But then how would Terry know any better in the right-wing echo chamber he calls home? Meanwhile the Incredible Shrinking Healthcare Reform continues its incredible shrinkage. Some days I think real meaningful reform will keep many of us busy the rest of our lives. Well, whatever it takes, I'm in for the long haul. There are very few things to smile or laugh about these days, but one of them could be the sheer comedy of Terry’s (and his mentors Rush, Glenn & Fox’s) hysteria over Obama’s socialism/communism. As one European leader commented to our President with great puzzlement, “In Europe you’d be considered a conservative.” But then how would Terry know any better in the right-wing echo chamber he calls home?

Meanwhile the Incredible Shrinking Healthcare Reform continues its incredible shrinkage. Some days I think real meaningful reform will keep many of us busy the rest of our lives. Well, whatever it takes, I’m in for the long haul.

]]> By: anon http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2009/11/the-acceptable-public-option-you-have-to-volunteer/comment-page-1/#comment-109985 anon Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:38:12 +0000 http://orangejuiceblog.com/?p=31164#comment-109985 "The Democrats have slowly abandoned the radical proposals of their Leftist base and have come around to a moderate proposal that Bob Dole put forth in 1993." What you failed to understand, from the beginning, is that some weak-kneed compromise on the public option was virtually inevitable. That's because you fail to understand just how toxic is the intersection between government and corporate interests. In the end, corporations get much of what they want. On top of all that, this exposes just how ludicrous was all the alarmist, "government takeover", socialist BS emanating from the right. A government takeover would have been single-payer. That was NEVER on the table. And now a robust public option is apparently not even on the table. Could you have been MORE wrong? “The Democrats have slowly abandoned the radical proposals of their Leftist base and have come around to a moderate proposal that Bob Dole put forth in 1993.”

What you failed to understand, from the beginning, is that some weak-kneed compromise on the public option was virtually inevitable. That’s because you fail to understand just how toxic is the intersection between government and corporate interests. In the end, corporations get much of what they want.

On top of all that, this exposes just how ludicrous was all the alarmist, “government takeover”, socialist BS emanating from the right. A government takeover would have been single-payer. That was NEVER on the table. And now a robust public option is apparently not even on the table.

Could you have been MORE wrong?

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