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Fred Hiatt's Strange Argument
Obsidian Wings — ... that's a reason to criticize Congress, but it's no reason to criticize the public option.  These are just analytically distinct points. Congress is dragging its feet on cost-cutting because cost-cutting is politically treacherous.  The public option has nothing to do with it.  The real story here is that Hiatt just really dislikes liberals.  His argument, frankly, seems more motivated by animus than by policy concerns (note the swipe against unions). Of course, DougJ at Balloon Juice says all this more succinctly than I could: ...