This man is speaking big, and increasingly necessary, truths.
E.J. Dionne articulated the political stakes of the health care “debate”, David Sirota looks at the bigger picture and The Krug wisely remembers the big elephant in every American piggy bank.
But Bill Maher has been bringing the noise, and it’s a righteous indignation that I heartily endorse. Enough of the platitudes, enough with the feel-good “bipartisanship of fools” (to quote Dionne) and let’s see a little more audacity (to quote Maher). It remains beyond embarrassing that a late night talk host (brilliant though he is) is the one defending the precepts of progressive politics while the majority of Democratic leadership sits in the shadows, afraid of offending the the Establishment (the same Establishment that came close to bankrupting the country and propelling Obama to his unlikely victory–something he should never cease to appreciate). With the lack of a coherent, and courageous voice (including, for the most part, our POTUS), let Maher lay it on the line:
