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Scarecrow provides us a great example of \u201cgiving the game away thinking\u201d<\/a> in a new blog entry<\/a>. He provides an account of \u201cDemocratic Strategist\u201d Steve McMahon’s thinking<\/a> on what the Democrats ought to do to get a health care reform bill. McMahon’s prescription is perfect for shrinking Democratic majorities in 2010, and for paving the way for making Barack Obama a one-term President. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n Why? Because everyone involved in passing the kind of bill McMahon advocates will tell people that it’s real reform, and they’ll run on that. And the divergence from perceived and felt reality will be dramatic. So while they strut around proudly enjoying their Government-funded single-payer health plan, and telling their constituents just how much they’ve done for them, their constituents will continue to get screwed by the insurance companies, and it will be obvious to their constituents that the Democratic Party has, once again, sold them out to the monied interests, and then lied about it.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n If Congress passes a McMahon type of compromise, the legislation should contain a provision ending the current Congressional Health Plan, and replacing it with the toothless public option that will, undoubtedly, emerge from such a cursed compromise. And if such a provision passes, those of us who are disappointed with the politics of giving the game away ought to recognize that there are really three \u201cparties\u201d in American politics and not two: the wingnut right; the centrist defenders of the status quo; and the progressives. And then we ought to begin to lay our plans to found a New Progressive Party that is anxious, when it gets a majority, to keep its promises to the people, no matter the changes in Congressional procedure, tax policy, the executive branch, and the Judiciary that may be required to make that possible.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scarecrow provides us a great example of \u201cgiving the game away thinking\u201d in a new blog entry. He provides an account of \u201cDemocratic Strategist\u201d Steve McMahon’s thinking on what the Democrats ought to do to get a health care reform bill. McMahon’s prescription is perfect for shrinking Democratic majorities in 2010, and for paving the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693],"tags":[1702,1694,1693,1673,1659,1677,1695],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-1702","tag-centrist-democrats","tag-health-care-reform","tag-progressives","tag-public-option","tag-single-payer","tag-steve-mcmahon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}