Ethics

DailyKos Negotiates Deal With GOP

By Ed Brayton

A diarist from the Daily Kos has a very amusing essay wherein he negotiates a compromise with the GOP over their hyperbolic and highly dishonest claims about health care reform by promising not to do all the things no one was going to do in the first place. Like this:

We will not euthanize your grandmother. This is the big one, and I really hope you guys appreciate how much of a concession this is on behalf of the progressive movement. Since the days of the Bull Moose Party, progressives have wanted nothing more than to slaughter old people by the millions. That much is obvious. After all, if we wanted senior citizens to have long and healthy lives, why would we have created Social Security and Medicare? Think about it. Death to grannies has long been the core of progressive policy, so it's not without some consternation that we give it up. So there: no euthanizing old people. You've got it.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).