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Yglesias: Tomorrow's Compromise Is Today's Triumph

By Big Tent Democrat

What really bugs me about the New "Progressive" Broderism being championed by Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias and Co. is they have absolutely no idea what a final "compromise" health care bill will look like and they are already whipping for it like nobody's business. Today, Yglesias pens a post titled Yesterday's Compromise Is Tomorrow's Triumph:

The [. . .] point for today is that you need to judge legislative outcomes relative to the status quo, not relative to what you enact in utopia. Medicare & Medicaid (especially the very stingy version of Medicaid that was initially created) were really pretty pathetic compared to what Harry Truman proposed. But they’ve done enormous good for a lot of people over the decades.

How in blazes can Yglesias be judging "tomorrow's compromise" when he has no idea what it will be? We can judge Medicare and Medicaid now (and even then) because you knew what it was. Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias do not even have the foggiest notion what a "compromise" HCR bill will look like and they are already declaring it a triumph. Just pathetic.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).