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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:31 PM Original message

Dana Milbank mocks "angry" single-payer proponents

Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 12:33 PM by AlexanderProgressive Dana Milbank, apparently still angry that Keith Olbermann practically kicked him out of his show for distorting Barack Obama's words one time, today mocked Dennis Kucinich, John Conyers, and other advocates of the single-payer health system, portraying them as "angry" and just "blowing off steam: Excerpts: "Socialism is not dead. It has, however, been confined to a House subcommittee. " ... ""There's some notion that universal single-payer health care is off the table," Conyers fumed." ... "With Republicans declining to take the bait, the task of arguing with the angry single-payer crowd fell to a witness, David Gratzer of the conservative Manhattan Institute." ... "Kucinich was definitely fierce, if not entirely articulate, as he directed his rage at the bespectacled scholar." Milbank is apparently using the "angry" meme as a planned strategy, for he said the following on April this year, while complaining about the fact that liberals in his comments section don't like him: It made sense for them to be angry when George W. Bush was in the White House. But now, even under Obama, the anger on the left is, if anything, more personal and vitriolic than on the right. After the abortion and museum murders, does Milbank still think that way? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061003384.html?nav=emailpage

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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message

1. Dana Milbank represents everything I can't stand about the insular Washington press people....

..... Smug, arrogant, corporatist and blind.

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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:34 PM Response to Reply #1

5. Agree. They're all too wealthy and most are hired fresh off the

Harvard Crimson or other Ivy League school papers at the age of 22.

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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message

2. Another overpaid Skull and Bones alum. nt

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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message

3. Is he related to the Milbank of Milbank Tweed?

??

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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:34 PM Response to Original message

4. I wish Dana Milbank the same fate as other overpaid and underthought gasbags

...... and that is no job and a stab at a stupid blog.

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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message

6. Angry? How many leftists are storming Blue Cross with weapons?

What a bunch of trash. People for single-payer are rationally angry. You have an entire country brought to its knees economically from this mess and they aren't looking at the 1 solution guarenteed to alieve the problem. That is frustrating. But..."more personal and vitriolic than on the right"? Come on now. They are just trying to undermine the voices again instead of address them.

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orwell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:36 PM Response to Original message

7. "the anger on the left is,...

if anything, more personal and vitriolic than on the right." Except for the assassination of abortion doctors, police, and security guards (in lieu of jews) part. Nice try Dana...

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groovedaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 12:54 PM Response to Original message

8. I admit it! I'm angry that rich oligarchs have hijacked our Republic and want to cram their way of

doing things down our throats! Hell yes, I'm angry!

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AwakeAtLast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 01:03 PM Response to Original message

9. Hmmmm, he crawled out from under his rock I see....

He can go back now. ;)

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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Jun-11-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message

10. I do think that, if it isn't totally off the table, it's got its feet on the floor.

Don't shoot the messenger, now. It just seems that there was a lot more support for it in the House a year ago. I suspect the Dems have been sold the notion that it is too expensive, and instead, we'll see some sort of "hybrid" system that doesn't satisfy all.

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