sing it, dwayne
By shag carpet bomb • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Democrats, Election 2008, Obama, Politics, Third way triangulating b.s.Doug Henwood asked of Andy Stern, why he thinks that the Obama administration is going to give a bat’s eyelash about decent health care, a query posted to a piece from The Note:
Doug asked: from The Note - will someone ask Andy Stern what he hopes to gain by
associating with this gang?
The Note:
Pressure to move, on healthcare: “Four leading advocacy groups
representing business, labor and retirees are starting a campaign
today to press Barack Obama to enact comprehensive healthcare reform,
upping the pressure on the president-elect to tackle the issue quickly
after he takes office,” Noam M. Levey reports in the Los Angeles
Times. “In a letter to Obama, the Business Roundtable, the National
Federation of Independent Businesses, AARP and the Service Employees
International Union urge that a healthcare overhaul be a priority in
the administration’s first 100 days. The groups plan to spend nearly
$1 million to publicize their cause in newspaper and television
advertising in coming weeks.”
………
Dwayne tells it like it is. Huzzah!
Unless I miss my guess, here’s the group’s website:
Note the ‘post partisan’ (and, we can infer, post political) logo
which mates the elephant with the ass to create a new, apolitical,
hybrid creature.
This seems perfectly suited to the Obama era: the message is
attractive — let’s solve our problems together without partisan
bickering! But the goal is to preserve the existing class
architecture.
The fantasy of politics without politics, without conflict, is
fascinating. If the US nurtured a functioning technocratic elite
–instead of a dysfunctional command strata which tends towards wild
swings between unbounded enthusiasm and baggy eyed depression — she
might be able to sustain this fantasy.
For a little awhile.
The idea that our trouble is argument itself, instead of the genuinely
conflicting goals of competing class interests (for example, the
medical industry’s desire to squeeze ever more protection money from
me while providing ever less service vs. my need for decent health
care) will, I predict, achieve its apogee during President Obama’s
time in office.
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