DirkGently
DirkGently's JournalThe "It's a center-right country" theme is expired.
No one seems to be acknowledging the pendulum is swinging back to a truer "center" than the one given us by the post-Reagan nightmare from which we are slowly awakening.
Barack Obama, a true moderate, does not get elected twice in Center Right America. Center Right America does not see candidates arguing about who is the real "progressive."
It's not 1990, much less 1980, anymore, Mr. Matthews.
The Clinton team seemed embarrassed.
Ms. Clinton gave a good speech, but she sounded tight and brittle. Diving in on top of Cruz, skipping Bill and Chelsea's planned comments, and beating it out of town without congratulating the Iowa crew seemed like panic.
I think they were very displeased and abashed at their premature claim of victory.
I'm guessing whoever made that declaration to Andrea Mitchell got several ears full of Ms. Clinton's displeasure.
Respectfully as to Ms. Clinton,
on whose behalf is this vehemence that single-payer WILL NOT HAPPEN?
It's one thing to opine it's not a realistic goal in the short term. And I take no issue with suggesting we tune and polish the ACA in the meantime.
But no one is actually this determined we cross out and totally discard the world's proven-best approach to health care. The one employed by all other wealthy democracies.
No one but the health insurance industry.
Is that where she's coming from? I don't accuse -- I'm really asking.
Because otherwise, it makes no sense to me to frame a single-payer healthcare system as not just a challenge; not just a long term vs short-term goal, but as some kind of unthinkable anathema.
Weird.
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