I spent a long time trying to formulate the title for this diary. Candidates were "Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face" and "As Politics and Policy, Killing The Bill Is Stupid" or "Look How High Joe Lieberman Is Making You Jump".
Ultimately I went with what I really felt about this whole ordeal, though. Yesterday, I was disgusted to read Daily Kos, and honestly was a little embarrassed to be a progressive if being progressive meant acting the way I saw.
Yesterday made me feel like the adults were in charge anymore. It felt like facts, and reasoning, and realism went right out the window, and the new goal became trying to satisfy some masochistic urge to scrap the whole project because progressivism had sand kicked in its eye by Joe Lieberman.
Most of this post is catharsis for me, as I try to lay out the myriad reasons why HCR is still an absolutely necessary bill to pass. Today was a setback, but I am sickened at how many people think the loss of a watered-down public option is grounds for flipping over the whole chess board right as the last moves are being played.
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