But today I'm adding Matt Taibbi to the blogroll. It isn't that he needs linkitude from me, it's a question of the extraordinary work he's been doing lately, capped but not limited to his great Rolling Stone piece on Goldman Sachs. But in addition to being the kind of investigative journalist of which we see far too little these days, Taibbi's willingness to appear on the late and lamented Break Room Live demonstrates that success hasn't spoiled him. Today, and in an article we're looking forward to reading, he takes on the Obama Administration's capitulation to Republicans, Blue Dogs, and corporations:
Now, obviously (and this is will be explored in more detail in the forthcoming piece, which will be out this week), the public option was not a cure-all. In fact, the Democrats had in reality already managed to kill the public option by watering it down to the point of near-meaninglessness. But the notion that our president not only does not have any use anymore for a public option, but in fact “will be satisfied” if there is merely “choice and competition” in the market is, well, disgusting.
I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?
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