Don't miss his interview tonight on Hardball with the woman who had harangued Arlen Specter Tuesday, health care reform and other government initiatives as dismantling our country, voicing her fear of Socialism in America, and demanding to know why Specter/the Democrats are doing stuff that the Founders didn't put in the Constitution... and Why can't we go back to the way things used to be?
O'Donnell took on the Socialism question head on, asking what she thinks of medicare, which, he agreed, is a socialist program (...) and asked if she would advise elderly people to reject it and refuse to participate? When Katy became clearly embarrassed, stammered, and found no answer, he went on to Social Security, noting that it too is a socialist program, and that such programs support many millions of working people in their old age, and that he supports both of them because they solve problems of our time that couldn't have been foreseen back in the 1700s.
Kudos to Lawrence O'Donnell (and Katy Abrams) for a civilized, no-bullshit interview.