Knoxville

We get attacked.

Jane treats viewers of MSNBC’s The Ed Show to a fine example of a good, old-fashioned ass-kicking and proved once again that a shill-in-sheep’s-clothing is still a shill.

Both the best-intentioned leaders of health care reform and those whose intentions have been questionable have come together to declare in one voice that the one who’s doing the most to block what they call “health care reform” (though it is not) is Governor Howard Dean.

PCCC PETITION TO PROGRESSIVE SENATORS RUSS FEINGOLD, BERNIE SANDERS, ROLAND BURRIS, AND SHERROD BROWN

John Kerry and his fellow incumbent Democrats want you to know that they have the right stuff to save you from tea bags that hang from rearview mirrors.

The more Lieberman pushes back, the more it looks like there might yet be a chance that Reid will return to his original plan announced in late October, which at least had a weak public option and received a decent score from the CBO.

Sign the petition to tell Reid that he must use reconciliation so that the majority of senators can pass real health care reform.

Thank Lieberman for putting Obama and Reid the perfect position to stand with us, the American people, or against us. Now that Lieberman is not going to stop at ruining the final scrap that would have allowed Obama and the House and Senate Democrats to pretend that they’ve achieved health care reform, they have to take a stand one way or the other.

Our country’s leaders talk out of their asses.

Matthew Spieler at The Faster Times focuses his analysis of netroots’ anger over the Senate’s latest health care deal exclusively on Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake. On substance, Spieler largely agrees with Hamsher regarding health care reform – noting, in particular, that the Senate’s health care deal “does not do enough to control costs, and certainly fails with respect to consumer choice” -, but then he oddly proceeds to take pointless shots at her on style.