I think progressives have multiple reasons to be pissed, and it sucks that Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh and the rest of the moderates get to force-feed them shit sandwiches. But there isn’t much that can be done about it.

This is the part where I stop valuing John Cole’s opinions on this issue. Same goes for Drum, Marshall, Yglesias, Klein and the rest of the Reasonable Realists. I’m wiping the political blogs off the read list for now.

I am sick to fucking death of hearing moderate liberal “realists” sigh wistfully, concede that our government is owned top to bottom in every branch by corporate interests, and that this is both horrible policy and horrible politics, but lament that “there isn’t much that can be done about it”. I wanna hear just one fucking insurance company CEO say, “Man, this bill just puts my fucking balls in my throat, this is going to be really rough for us, but that’s what the American People want. There isn’t much that can be done about it.”

There’s a lot that can be done about it, we’re just not doing it. I may not have a vote, shit as a DC resident I don’t even have a Senator to yell at. But I’m not about to be resigned to this, and I’m sure as fuck not going to be lectured by those that are.

[UPDATE]: Just to be clear: yes, I realize that, much like the rest of content that graces this little slice of Internet heaven, this means nothing to anyone, and will have all the impact of throwing lint at the sun. My fists are tiny. I shake them anyway.

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