How do you really feel about Joe. It sound like you are thinking about him like a man would think about a woman.
I just wonder if you had these feeling about Sen. Rob Bird when he was fillabusering the equal rights amendment?

I blogged this the other day cause I thought you would want to know what Joe said to the Democrat caucus. It also includes his margin notes (what he wuz thinking) in parentheses:

Dear fellow Democrats (I mean Ben and Evan, the rest of you are socialists):

I regret that I have made this hard for you (I meant to make it impossible) but I am confident that our differences can be bridged (if you do what I say). Policy issues are often very complex (as much as we can make them) and, for that reason, it is difficult to capture that which is best (for me) for our country in a simple statement (which is why I am now saying the opposite of all of my previous simple statements). You know how I feel about all of my longstanding friends (you also know what I think of you jerks in here) and I hope that our differences will make us (me) stronger rather than driving us apart (losing my Chairmanship). I look forward to our continuing work (so I can continue to screw you and laugh up my sleeve when Rahm tells Harry to give me anything I want!).

How about forgetting the surrender in advance philosophy altogether and simply coming out and fighting for what Obama supported before he became beholden to the insurance interests? Single payer: Medicare for All like Teddy Kennedy fought for, for all those years? People will support that. Polls are clear about that and it's something worth fighting for as opposed to the bullshit Obama has been trying to serve up in lieu of real reform.

Lieberman is just the face man. Screw Rahm. Screw the DLC. Screw the Neo-Dems. Screw the hard core deadly cynicism of a political party that would screw their base not to mention the American people on the signature issue of the Democratic Party.

They've chosen the shortest of short term expediency and sacrificed a generation of work by folks like Ted Kennedy and they've sacrificed whatever heart or soul remained in the party.

And it's going to backfire because however little attention the American people pay one thing has not escaped them. This bill is not about them. Whoever it is about, Joe and his vendetta, Rahm and his king making, Obama and his paper doll fronting for big corporate interests, and the corrupt Congressm, this bill is not about us.

Obama is no god. He is an excellent politician. We thought he was our politician (somewhat). But the somewhat is mighty small. He is pretty smart letting Lieberman take the fall for his own preferred outcome.

Andy Borowitz on the health care bill.

As much as we miss outhouses and no running water. And I say this from (ahem!) experience, dear.