Matt Taibbi saved some of his Goldman Sachs venom and applied it liberally to our Executive and Legislative branch today....
If the Obama administration wanted to pass a real health care bill, they would do what George Bush and Tom DeLay did in the first six-odd years of this decade whenever they wanted to pass some nightmare piece of legislation (ie the Prescription Drug Bill or CAFTA): they would take the recalcitrant legislators blocking their path into a back room at the Capitol, and beat them with rubber hoses until they changed their minds.
My question is, did Rahm Emanuel really sign up to leave his supposedly wonderful family life for this?
A shell game? 3 card monte?
This whole business, it was a litmus test for whether or not we even have a functioning government. Here we had a political majority in congress and a popular president armed with oodles of political capital and backed by the overwhelming sentiment of perhaps 150 million Americans, and this government could not bring itself to offend ten thousand insurance men in order to pass a bill that addresses an urgent emergency. What’s left? Third-party politics?
Read the rest of Taibbi here:
http://trueslant.com/...
What aisle are the pitchforks in again?