tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post4607649452273936856..comments2023-12-29T18:13:21.495-06:00Comments on pink scare: Does "Obamacare" Cut $500 billion from Medicare?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-70342824887359112392011-08-02T13:12:55.839-05:002011-08-02T13:12:55.839-05:00The sad thing is that the Obamaheads can't eve...The sad thing is that the Obamaheads can't even really defend this thing against the sneers from the Right. First of all, the damned thing is so complicated that even Obama doesn't understand it. It's not as if Obama can say "look, I gave you single-payer health care from cradle to grave, and you'll never have to worry about medical bills ever again". Second, the putative benefits of the "reform" are so thin that they don't even get the DailyKos crowd excited. It's really pretty pathetic watching the Democrat apologists try to stand up for this heaping pile of shit. It's a debate between the hard right, on the one hand, and the soft right on the other. There is not even a tepid left-liberal voice to be found in the halls power. There's something Quixotic about the way that Robert Reich and Paul Krugman, "the last liberals", complain about the "incompetence" or "lack of fighting spirit" that obtains among Democrats. "Why can't they just see the good arguments for Keynesian-style reformism?" the two of them incessantly wonder. Well, I've got news for them: Obama, et al. are showing their true colors. They don't give a shit about the "good arguments". They have goals that diverge from those of liberals, and, to be quite frank, I have to say that Obama and Co. are making use of very effective means to achieve those goals. They are re-establishing the conditions in which the accumulation of profits can resume, by any means necessary. Both parties pay lip service, as you point out, to Medicare because it's popular. But both parties are looking to axe it as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com