Was I wrong about us ---no cohesion, no loyalty, no long term perseverance-- ?!1 [View All]

I e-mailed something about the Public Option to the local radio talkshow wingnut, so this exchange happened:


Re, your (the local wingnut radio ex-talkshow host) :

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"You cannot be for the Public Option?!! It'll destroy private health insurance by running them out of business because the PO can price things below cost until the private insurers quit. I once sued and won against an insurer so I have no love for them. Besides, the PO bill is not designed to start a public insurance company, it is designed to make us into--or start making us into-- a social democracy a la the Europeos."

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You always say I don't have to worry about this or that---e.g., PALIN & Jeb---that they are SO over, that Shrub wrecked the BUSH brand so badly Jeb is out. Well, isn't the word out there that the public option is dead? You ought to hear all the wailing at the Dem discussion board. They were RABID for OBAMA in the primaries, HATED Hillary. For two days, the board has been flooded with items like, "If OBAMA sells us out, who do we support in 2012?" and "OLBERMANN went ballistic on OBAMA and hinted at an opponent in the primaries!"

So you wingnuts don't have to worry about the public option, and you don't have to worry about adversaries like us on the Left. We have NO cohesion and NO loyalty and NO long term perseverance.

As for Europeans, there was a thread yesterday from somebody living there who said that Europe and the rest of the world are LAUGHING at our agonized debate over health care, the same as how they laughed at the Puritanical obsession with CLINTON's sex peccadilloes.