Rahm Emanuel has managed to convince enough of the people that any inadequacies in this bill will be forgotten if the Dems can claim a “w” and pass any piece of shit health care bill. And that if Congress just spends 2010 naming post offices, any objections that Americans might have to paying 8% of their incomes to private corporations who will use the IRS as their collection agencies will just disappear.

It’s scary to think that people this obscenely stupid are running the country. All the while, the painfully obvious left/right transpartisan consensus that is coalescing against DC insiders of both parties appears to be taking everyone by surprise.

Ezra Klein has a new, strange, and incorrect defense of the individual mandate in the Senate bill. The argument simply does not fit with the language in the bill, and is pure nonsense. Progressives need to use their leverage for better reforms down the road, laying a strategy for “fixing it later.”

The White House and Harry Reid are preparing to give Ben Nelson anything he wants in exchange for his vote. It appears that this anything could be a gutting of the single best remaining piece of reform, Medicaid expansion.

The health care system is sucking the life out of the economy. The Senate bill as reported forecloses the kinds of substantive changes we need to reduce those expenditures. It should be defeated.

Megan McCardle looks at the liberal revolt over LieberCare and thinks so.

New poll by Research 2000 for DFA and the PCCC shows that people hate the mandate.

An astounding amount of action happened in the dead of night last night. Let’s get you up to speed.

That’s pretty powerful. The President of the United States calling you out for disloyalty in front of your peers.

In employer surveys, between 9 and 16% said they would not pass on any savings to employees–a key assumption behind the Senate’s Cadillac tax. So not only will that tax make employees’ health care worse, but the tax won’t raise the revenue the government claims it will.

Chris Matthews, surely you don’t mean me? Of course, I do blog, and yes, I do get most of my news and information from blogs. Mostly because of pundits like you – who may or may not eat cheetos, but who surrendered their journalistic integrity a long, long time ago.

But Chris, if you’re laughing at me, the joke’s on you.