Look at ourselves.
We're sitting around all day arguing about Jane Hamsher. What good does it do? How does this little purity test for Jane help any god damned thing? What are we hoping to achieve by the thousands of comments?
Well, I've thought about it. I engaged in the spat some this morning. Why? I've spent some time reflecting, and here's my best answer: Because I'm pissed off at how weak the current health insurance reform bill is. But instead of arguing about that, I'm venting on a fucking side issue. I'm mad, and I want to argue. I suspect many of you are in a similar situation with your frusteration about the weakness of the bill OR the prospect of throwing away all the decent reform that still remains in the bill.
Jane just happened to be flash point that got everyone fighting.
The Republicans, Democrats, and rich private interests (health insurance executives/shareholders this time) are again laughing at our little circular firing squad. The Machine is laughing. Oh how ineffective us little progressives have become. We get fucked by The Machine, then turn on ourselves.
Imagine what a health insurance CEO would think if he came here today. He would be in utter disbelief that we've turned to fighting ourselves rather than his company that just successfully bought off our government so that his corporation could continue murdering more people for profit. It's crazy. It's counter productive.
And it needs to stop.
Fight against The Machine - not for/against Jane Hamsher.
(I'm going to lunch; will respond to comments when I get back)