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yeah, see this is what i was referencing when i talked about the degenerate state of political debate, particularly around this topic.
which is compounded in my view because obama is simply not going far enough fast enough in advancing a clear, coherent plan.
the problem seems to be tactical on his side: build consensus around the general proposition that the existing system is not sustainable/workable.
as for the right, it really appears that they have no coherent position from which to argue against the plan but a clear tactical imperative to appear to be politically viable by mobilizing their demographic to stop such debate as there is by generating a level of noise that simply grinds it to a halt. what's depressing within this is that to do this, they seem to have tapped into the same demographic that was running to buy up as many guns as possible when obama was elected---so what you've got, it seems to me, is an opportunity for far right petit bourgeois being-aggrieved as the center of a position regarding health care. which is absurd, and a pretty clear indication of the strategic debacle that the right now finds itself trying to work a way out of.
this isn't to say that all conservative opposition is like this--but it's pretty hard not to see in what the right is doing en bloc much beyond a reflection of total disarray.
so the right has found itself backed into a position where their strategy is to say everything and anything to grind the debate to a halt, as if by doing that there's anything possible beyond a pyrrhic victory.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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