I was around early too, when it was all Fitz, all the time, before they moved to .com.

don’t go to silence though!

you bang that wall with your head long enough, you can hear and feel when it is getting hollower.

it is definitely getting hollower now, people are really fed up with being played for chumps by the Democrats all the time.

you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.

FDL consistently deplores the failure and betrayals of Democrats week in, week out, but 3rd Party advocacy is one of their big taboos.

Even ‘Accountability Now’ could not get behind Cindy Sheehan’s campaign against Pelosi . . . and now we hear all the time about Pelosi’s whip efforts against Progressives, while letting Blue Dogs run free.

Lots of commenters express outrage and exasperation against the flood of betrayals from the (D) party, and more and more of them, I think, are ready to tip over and support someone else, if available.

we can hope. Its a marathon, not a sprint, as they like to say.

I do remember the clip showing her standing up in front of the contemptuous Steny Hoyer and her competitor (I forget the incumbent’s name at the moment – Wynn?) and steadfastly saying “I will not sell you out”. It was very heartening and convincing. Perhaps someone from her area can send her the clip.

Someone asked the other day if I thought the House bill was a ruse, a sop to progressives to keep them quiet while the real deal was negotiated in the Senate (hence the almost total silence about the House bill, while all the focus is on what Max Baucus and Kent Conrad want).

I think that’s probably pretty much of a dead certainty, too. And members know that’s what will happen — and so nobody wants to have a public commitment that they have to back down on when the arms start getting twisted.

Well we’ve got two months until a vote, and the month of August they’ll all be in district. If we have to spend the next 2 months making their lives miserable, I guess that’s what we do.

I would be DELIGHTED if they would agree to vote against anything that didn’t have those standards. I’d be even HAPPIER if they agreed to vote against anything that was’t single payer.

It’s like pulling teeth to even get them to agree to these minimal standards, which I assure you do not satisfy me personally. But the likelihood that we will get a bill that is much worse is probably close to 100%.

Great work.

Now if we could only get the last 1%….