WaPo Wrong as they ever were

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Friday September 25, 2009 · 12:11 PM PDT

2009/09/25 · 12:11

The Washington Post’s Paul Kane reports today in an article today that Democrats are “jarred” by a drop in fundraising. Moreover, Kane thinks he knows why: “complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party's harsh rhetoric about big business.” He further adds: “The vast majority of those declines were accounted for by the absence of large donors who, strategists say, have shut their checkbooks in part because Democrats have heightened their attacks on the conduct of major financial firms and set their sights on rewriting the laws that regulate their behavior.” Who would these sources be? Well, we really don’t know and Mr. Kane is apparently unwilling to share this important piece of information with us so that we can evaluate his article.

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Tuesday September 08, 2009 · 9:02 AM PDT

2009/09/08 · 09:02

Barrack Obama has just completed his speech on Health Care Reform to a joint session of Congress and he has presented to us the kind of watered-down approach that progressives had hoped he would not give. We switch to the pundit post-speech shows and find out that the conservatives castigate the president as moving us ever closer to Socialism while the “liberal” pundits admonish the progressives for wanting just too much from the man and that in order to get along we must stab a dagger into the heart of the public option and sign off on this most recent give-away to the “corporatocracy” in the guise, this time, of the health care industry. What should the progressive block of Congress do? Sacrifice their own values for the good of the team (the DLC and the Blue Dogs) and leave their base stranded on an island of no exit and no recourse, or kill Health Care Reform? I argue that the dagger they brandish should be thrust into the heart of the reform legislation, not the public option.

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