E. J. Dionne: Democrats- Stop Screaming and Pass Health Reform
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
Monday December 21, 2009
For progressives, the question on the health-care battle going forward is not whether they have a right to be angry but whether they can direct their fury toward constructive ends. The alternative is to pursue a temporarily satisfying and ultimately self-defeating politics of protest...
...It's quite clear that substantial majorities in both houses of Congress favored either a public option or a Medicare buy-in.
In a normal democracy, such majorities would work their will... But everyone must get it through their heads that thanks to the bizarre habits of the Senate, we are no longer a normal democracy.