Boo Radley

The far left has gone completely insane. This is the reason why I don't get annual passes to Disney for my kids anymore; they throw tantrums over gifts and would rather be the victims, getting absolutely nothing, than getting most of what they want (and everything they need).

Joe Lieberman is a schmuck. Fine. It is what it is.

But killing the most important progressive piece of legislation and knee-capping the President and anything he will try to achieve in the next 3 years (forget 7 because of your dim-wittedness) just because you don't get 100% of what you hoped for, the willingness to deprive people with pre-existing conditions of health insurance, the insistence on destroying those hated existing insurance companies instead of working with them to advance the cause of health security for those who need it most, it's just ridiculous. There's no rational debate here anymore, just a bunch of loud-mouth spoiled brats who think that they elected Barack Obama and, damn-it, he's going to give them what they want. Or else.

And it's all so stupid. Nate Silver's 20 Questions reflect the idiocy of the so-called progressives, who are willing to jettison this bill in favor of taking a wild shot at passing reform through reconciliation (which is a lousy idea, anyway). Geez, guys, did it ever occur to you that you can pass the darn bill and then, next year or later, try reconciliation to get some of the missing pieces? Or that nobody else - Harry Reid, President Obama, or anyone with half a brain - can actually tip their hat to that until this bill has passed?

I have completely had it with the martyrdom. Get over yourselves.

UPDATE: Josh nails it on the head: "Also cool how well that Nader thing worked out in 2000. That was cool."