I'm sorry, Elizabeth … I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where we're going to send the invoice. I believe the best and boldest idea here is to not trash Obamacare, but to do exactly what Barack Obama wanted to do from the beginning, and that's have a public option.And the article’s perhaps optimistic conclusion:
It wasn't a fight, it was an execution. Angry Amy ate Pocahontas for lunch.Somebody needed to do it.
Plus a couple of quotes from Politico that I find a good summary.
What was remarkable about Tuesday night’s debate was how unremarkable it was. No candidate said anything likely to shift a lot of undecided Democrats her or his way.Obama proved ineffective, and Kennedy was a work in progress when assassinated. I would argue FDR was consequential, perhaps mostly effective. My parents certainly thought he was.
No Democrat who wants to be president has yet demonstrated the talent for thrilling people who expect little from politics that Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Barack Obama possessed. Of course, that quality does not ensure that one will be an effective president.
