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Monday, December 14, 2009

Leonard Cohen Helps Make Amor Mundi More Positive



If monolithic Republican and Conservadem Senatorial obstructionism made all this at best a non-starter from the beginning (and at worst, which is looking more likely by the minute, a government-mandated giveaway to the very for-profit insurers whose evil practices are the reason reform is necessary in the first place) can somebody tell me what the frack we spent most of the last year breaking our hearts over and obsessing over the details of when other worthy things that were marginally more do-able weren't getting done like DADT and torture prosecutions?

As is, I hope House Progressives scuttle the bill. The catastrophically failed status quo is actually better than the outcome of "reform" with a government mandated buy-in for catastrophically failed for-profit insurance with no surviving mechanisms either to contain costs or to enforce better-practices. And, besides, it is beginning to look as though only those who demonstrate their ability to destroy legislation are taken seriously as players in the crafting of legislation.

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