And I may be being unkind to clowns.
I support the health care reform bill, but I have no problem with Michael Moore, Howard Dean, and many of the others on the rec listed diary that seeks to fuck the left. Well, FU back.
Here is the most assinine diary I have seen in a long time:
Open Letter to Michael Moore, Kucinich, Jane Hamsher, Howard Dean, Arianna and the rest: UPDATE 3X
I am sick and tired of those who think Barack Obama walks on water. He does not.
I am sick and tired of litmus tests by a few here about whether I "support" Barack Obama enough.
I am sick and tired of people telling the left to shut the f..k up.
I am sick and tired of getting phone calls from blue dogs asking me for contributions.
I am sick and tired of Democratic Party sell-outs prostituting themselves to corporations for $$$ and screwing the people.
I am sick and tired of people here attacking those on the left who differ from them.
That diary is full of personal attacks on people, denigrating their motivations, and building strawmen.
I am sick and tired of people like jstipich telling others to shut up and then coming by and telling us to vote for centrists, volunteer, and give money.
Before that bozo claims I'm in it for the money, well I blog for free here. And before that jerk attacks me as a traitor to Obama, well, I am loyal to my nation, not a person, but in fact, I support the senate bill plus reconcilation (The Obama plan), and have taken a lot of shit for doing so.
President Obama Goes After Insurance Companies
This fight will go on until we pass the bills and then through the November election. We need to be together, even if we have differences on issues. The bills are far from perfect, but they will help people and will establish a government interest in health care insurance.
I like this framing.
Someday we will have single payer and insurance companies will be a thing of the past (hopefully sooner than later), but until then, helping people and ameliorating the worst of the insurance companies' many bad acts is useful, in my view.
And:
President Obama thanks Progressives For Advocacy to Make the Bill Better
I believe the House should pass the senate bill and the recon bill. This will help people.
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My hope is we can create a coalition, a popular front as Meteor Blades calls it, around the beliefs we do share and in opposition to the radical right wing that controls the Republican Party.
And we will fight again. It is in the nature of a coalition where left and center come together. (The center really is in the Democratic Party because the Republicans are dominated by the extreme right wing. Goldwater and Reagan won and the Rockerfeller Republicans have long migrated into the Democratic Party, just as southern racists inhabit the Republican Party). So we will have disputes again and fight and be angry. It is the nature of Dkos.
I suspect these words will be forgotten, but they matter to me:
Obama thanked the assembled, mostly liberals, for their ongoing insistence from the left over the months that the bill be improved, Woolsey says. "He thanked us," she recalled. "He said the bill wouldn’t have been nearly as good as it is if we hadn’t advocated."
Namaste and peace. Let's pass the senate bill and reconciliation bill and help people. And keep fighting for the public option. My only feeling on this is that if we cannot get the PO, we should still pass the bills we can get.
I so so fucking pissed off right now.
The Bozos can kiss my progressive ass.
I stand with all the people jstipich tells to STFU.
I'm not going to let a bozo change my views on this bill [I still support it], but I will fight bozoism in all its forms on Daily Kos. That that diary made the Rec List speaks volumes.
If you think you can win without the left, look at 2000 and 1994.