We're not talking what we really wanted - we really wanted single payer - so we already compromised from our position. I think the public option at this point is sort of our Waterloo, This is where we stand and fight.
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Is it, Markos? Or was that just a catchy sound bite for the cameras?
Is this where you stand and fight? Is today the day you use the front page of your blog to call for the defeat of the Lieberman Health Care Industry Profit Protection Act Of 2009?
A tweet won't cut it, I'm afraid. The dagger is already poised for the final stab in the back. This very day, Obama is making his final push to ram this abomination down our throats.
Throw me the idol, I throw you the whip. No time to argue! Gotta pass it by Christmas! Hurry, hurry, hurry! Can't stop to check the fine print! Now or never! Lives are at stake!
In fields more honest than politics - say, used car sales - this kind of bullshit is what's known as a high-pressure sales pitch. And the only people who need to resort to it are scammers trying to rip you off.
Markos, many if not most of your readers have already painfully accepted that the man they helped to elect was a con artist - posturing as a progressive to win the primaries while already drawing up plans to sell us out to his Wall Street and Big Medicine sponsors. It's past time for you to join them.
Front page. Today. "Kill The Bill".