Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Worry About the Left
The White House has its liberal wing in hand on health care, says White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
BTW, something else to notice about that article: The writer reuses a canard that got a lot of focus after Ted Kennedy died, namely that
The late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s greatest regret was not cutting a deal with Richard Nixon on universal health care.
But a Kennedy historian or two have argued...
It’s False To Conclude Kennedy Would Have Ditched Public Option For Compromise
“Kennedy was sorry that they didn’t reach an agreement” and that both sides “never reached closure,” [Adam] Clymer told our reporter, Amanda Erickson. He dismissed the idea that Kennedy regretted not giving up enough: “That’s not the same thing at all.”
“He was always anxious to reach an agreement,” Clymer said, “but that didn’t mean any agreement.”
Emphasis mine.
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