Legal Commentary

The Usual Suspects Begin Selling HCR Capitulation

By Big Tent Democrat

Mark "Theory of Change" Schmitt gets back to his roots, the marketing of Democratic capitulation:

One way or another, we'll have to compromise. We'll either compromise with the most conservative Democrats and one or two Republicans, or we'll compromise with the limits of a process that was designed for a totally different purpose. The political question is simply going to be which compromise is worse.

Big Media Ezra is quick to second. I got bad news for the Village apologists - you can't sell this sh*t now. Most Democrats and progressives now rightly believe that health care reform which includes mandates but not a public option is a giveaway to the health insurance companies. No matter of Villager Wonk BS is going to change that. That is the political reality now.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).