P.S. Leonidas, do you have a job?

Yes I work with special needs children. The perfect job for a heartless Republican like myself, when noone is looking I eat a few.

They're almost as floridly psychotic as Mikey — but so far, no match there.

What is interesting will be what the left-wing Dems in the House do when it's time for Senate-House conference on legislation to finally be passed and get Obama's signature. (I doubt Obama will make a public phony spectacle of a veto if “Dem minimums” aren't met in the conference, though he and his team obviously aren't above that.) Will they throw more childish tantrums over the public option, if it is removed, rather than try to engineer the co-ops to be everything the public option is except having a new name, for example?

These are the same Dims that pushed Lysenkoist “climate” legislation through the House (which the Senate needs to gut if it has any respect left) and who now want newspapers (liberal media) bailed out (and taken over).

It's pretty bad when dippy Stephanie Miller today chose as someone to consult on the progress of health care “reform,” none other than Barbara Lee. (Hardly “moderate” or “mainstream”!)

Except they're not moderates. The democrats you speak of aren't wary of anything left-wing and they don't feel any pressure from their constituents either. It's not the mandate for comprehensive reform that is lacking, but spine, guts and brains among some democrats. The progressives should be ready to compromise for the sake of reform, but they should be the last ones to do so considering the “moderate” democrats have less sound reasons for their positions.

P.S. Leonidas, do you have a job?

To restate the obvious that close minded progressives miss because they have their heads in the sand:

The problem is Progressives are not willing to compromise with Democratic moderates.