As George Monbiot keeps pointing out, climate change policy that won't enact any meaningful efforts to combat climate change is useless. A waste of resources and effort. A lie. Are you advocating such action? Are you an advocate of evidence-based policy?

The healthcare debate is so ridden with lies and propaganda that it is no wonder a half-arsed effort is the best they can produce. The lack of any reasonably balanced coverage of politics in the US is one of that nation's great flaws, as revealed by their absurdly ideology-driven policies.

Shamit – you can say that again.
What's the problem with the comments system?

Sunny – good post once again. If they don't do something it would be like 1994 deja vu during midterms.

Ma negga.

That's a separate argument – should we be pushing as hard as we can.. and that's where I agree with the decision to keep pushing for the public option.

But when it comes to the crunch, you still have to make a decision. This is why I'm not a fan of the purists who vote against a bill because it doesn't go far enough (Kucinich did this on the climate bill)

A good example would be companies “offsetting” their carbon emissions (which I believe does do *some* good, though of course not nearly as much as its advocates claim), then using that as an excuse not to do anything else to reduce their environmental impact.

Good example – and you're right in saying that it shouldn't stop the left pushing for more though.