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On HOLC: We Got The Republican; Can We Get The Democrat?

By Big Tent Democrat

Matt Yglesias writes:

Here’s the CAP [HOLC] plan. All joking aside, it’s genuinely true that a progressive policy operation is always hoping some Republicans somewhere will cotton to some of our ideas. It’s genuinely difficult to achieve anything legislatively in the United States without some bipartisanship. Obama has made some similar noises in the past. Hopefully McCain’s embrace of this idea means something like it can actually get done.

(Emphasis supplied.) Um, how about more than "some similar noises" from Obama? How about a little leadership on the issue?

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).