DON’T-BRING-A-KNIFE-TO-A-GUN-FIGHT DEPARTMENT….Shorter Digby: what we need to fight Social Security privatization is Harry and Louise, Mark II.

This is pretty much the conclusion I’m coming to as well.

(If you don’t get the reference, Harry & Louise are the kitchen table couple who ? as legend has it ? were responsible for killing Bill Clinton’s 1994 healthcare reform. Summary here. And as it happens, H&L have already been revived a couple of times since then, so I guess it would really be H&L Mark IV or something)

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