Driftglass excoriates the
Bloviators of Sunday (that's Led Zeppelin in the background).
...Lindsey Graham warned “the public option will destroy private insurance.”
Just as public parks and gyms have destroyed for-profit fitness clubs, public beaches have destroyed private seaside resorts, public transit has destroyed the car, Segue, motorcycle, bike and scooter industries, public libraries have driven Amazon into bankruptcy, taxpayer-funded police departments have wiped out the market for private security firms, the US Armed Forces have put Blackwater out of business, community colleges have killed the Ivy League, public playgrounds have destroyed private sports franchises, public washrooms have people turning their bathrooms into extra closet space, public housing has destroyed the housing market, public drinking fountains have crushed Evian and Ice Mountain.
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Of course, even if you accept Graham’s bullshit premise, he still failed to explain why it would be a bad thing.
It got worse:
Luntz: The public is most angry about wasteful Washington spending. (Luntz then reads his own polling questions as if they mean something.)
Cokie Roberts: The problem is, people want jobs and don’t want to spend any money. How oh how will they do that?
Will: I remember how the Carthaginians handled a similar problem in the…
Luntz: I’m gonna throw out a completely unrelated issue which my PR firm is contractually obligated to drag into this conversation: Governors releasing prisoners.
At which point you can actually see Donna Brazile roll her eyes.
Drifty is a treasure from the Steve Gilliard school.
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