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Seriously. Health care reform is Dennis Kucinich’s fucking fault. It has nothing to do with Obama, Durbin, and Pelosi. Don’tcha know.
Barack Obama says he supports a public option but claims there aren’t 51 votes in the Senate to pass it in reconciliation. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin says he would aggressively whip the 51 votes for the public option if Nancy Pelosi would send him a House reconciliation bill that includes a public option. Nancy Pelosi says she won’t include a public option in House reconciliation bill because there aren’t enough votes in the Senate to pass it. It’s looking more and more like a game of 3-Card Monty.
Damn you, Dennis!
Meanwhile, Edward Harrison is harshing my “green shoots” buzz:
This past week’s posts marked a turn for me on a few levels. It is apparent that most market reform efforts are mere tweaks of the existing system. I am being to conclude that no meaningful financial reform can occur absent an absolute collapse in the global economy and the financial system.
I wish Dennis Kucinich would knock this bullshit off and just reform the financial system.
And while he’s at it, Dennis Kucinich should stop making the rest of our ruling elites fail miserably.
In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society – whether it’s General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, the Catholic Church or the mainstream media – has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both. And at the root of these failures are the people who run these institutions, the bright and industrious minds who occupy the commanding heights of our meritocratic order. In exchange for their power, status and remuneration, they are supposed to make sure everything operates smoothly. But after a cascade of scandals and catastrophes, that implicit social contract lies in ruins, replaced by mass skepticism, contempt and disillusionment.
In the wake of the implosion of nearly all sources of American authority, this new decade will have to be about reforming our institutions to reconstitute a more reliable and democratic form of authority. Scholarly research shows a firm correlation between strong institutions, accountable élites and highly functional economies; mistrust and corruption, meanwhile, feed each other in a vicious circle. If our current crisis continues, we risk a long, ugly process of de-development: higher levels of corruption and tax evasion and an increasingly fractured public sphere, in which both public consensus and reform become all but impossible.
Oh, and one more thing, Dennis: Could you please, please, please stop Ralph Nader from stealing our elections?
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Now where’s that wascal wabbit?
After all, look at the paltry number of bills he’s passed. He has to work with all the serious pragmatic people (the ones who won’t pay lip service to the deadly socialism doncha know) to get bills passed, and he hasn’t done it!
I really wish all these people on the left and the right would stop having, you know, hissy fits, when the center is just trying to make David Broder feel good and get reelected. Any other way than enabling the same people who caused these disasters in the first place just isn’t pragmatic.
Where are you going to look for people with actual experience in how an entire world economy is turned into a game of Ponzi Scheme Monopoly, if not Timothy Geithner? They don’t let pinko commie liberals into THAT club.
Where are you going to look for deep technical know-how in event independent false equivalency if not David Broder? Who is going to teach us the high art of self immolating lip service, if not Barney Frank?
This is the problem: All of our people with actual deep technical experience in turning the country and the world into the shithole we have now are all centrists.
hat tip david mizner
is all attributable to Nadar, so between the two of them they caused 9/11, Global warming and crashed the economy, started the wars and allowed all boats to sink. I actually prefer Clinton did it! as he seems to still be doing it. these were never progressive geniuses just wanttobe villagers and hand wringers who saw the left as getting in the way of their ambitions of a place in court when they changed the guards.
then it only makes sense that Kucinich would be the reason why the Democrats can’t reform Health Care.
It couldn’t possibly be the fault of people that actually oppose Health Care reform. It must be that we aren’t clapping loud enough.
Edward Harrison:
This has been my conclusion since late December. It is an unappetizing prospect, but the power of the banksters is such that it is probably true. Only when things crash so badly that throwing the future earnings of all US citizens in the bottom 99& of earners for the next half century will not suffice will these criminals be forced to recognize their losses instead of foisting them off on others. Depending on how the debt is counted it is already to the point that every citizen owes the value of a new Mercedes to the US Gov. for their share of bogus debt. This is odious debt and it has to be repudiated.
Edward Harrison is a very insightful and knowledgeable observer and I suspect he has felt this way for a while. Glad he came out and said it. The most damaging campaign that could be launched would be a viral “Repudiate the Odious Debt” campaign. Graffiti, fliers put on windshields, etc. Then put a sign somewhere that the media cannot and will not ignore- such as over the Hollywood sign. That might be a way to end this fiasco. It could spook the financial markets.
A debate not reported anywhere.
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