Twofers

by digby

About a year ago I participated in an interesting discussion about which good policies are also good politics. In fact, the discussion ended up being about how to advance good policies that always advance good politics. In other words, how do you package policies in such a way that they end up empowering liberalism and the long term health of the progressive movement.
(The conservatives were very good at this, and have even institutionalized some of it with “paygo” and the like.)

In this interest essay, Andrew Sullivan makes the case (ruefully) that the opt-out may just be one of those policies. In fact he calls it “lethal” to conservatism and “Chicago style-politics” although he lets Obama off the hook. Food for thought.

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