How Bush is better than Obama.

That blogpost title was just painful to write. Nevertheless true.

I don't even know if I agree with the push for universal health care, but I do know that the Democratic Party's tendency to retreat at every juncture fills me with loathing. If you're gonna have principles, freaking fight for them, for Christ's sake. Spineless.

Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Obama’s Pre-emptive Health Care Surrender - True/Slant:

"...But the notion that our president not only does not have any use anymore for a public option, but in fact “will be satisfied” if there is merely “choice and competition” in the market is, well, disgusting.

I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?

To quote Method Man’s Calvin “Cheese” Wagstaff character from The Wire, “This is some shameless shit right here.”"