Purity
March 18th, 2010at 07:25am Posted by Eli
Perhaps I’m just imagining it, but the enemies of womens’ choice seem to be a lot more universally opposed to the Nelson “compromise” in the Senate bill than liberal healthcare advocates are to its lack of a public option. Despite the fact that Nelson is a lot closer to Stupak than No Public Option is to Public Option, and the fact that reconciliation could be used to pass the public option, but not to pass Stupak.
At any rate, I certainly don’t see a whole lot of bishops or Blue Dogs saying, “Come on! This is a historic once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to roll back women’s rights! Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!”
I really really hated having to choose between choice and the public option, but choosing between choice and forcing people to buy crappy private insurance policies they probably can’t afford to use isn’t very difficult at all. But one that, amazingly, Obama and the Democrats are still on the brink of getting wrong.
It’s a double epic fail. Like saying that everyone has to give up their bathroom privileges in exchange for mandatory shit sandwich lunches every day (“But look! Now everyone gets a lunch! Isn’t that awesome?”).
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