Cloture? I'm Supposed To Be Excited About Cloture?

Yeah, great job, Dems. Way to finally get Lincoln and Landrieu on board with their own party. Real impressive.

It's only downhill from here. Bye-bye strong public option, bye-bye subsidies for those making 300-400% of poverty, hello abortion restrictions and payoffs to Big Pharma. This thing is gonna get so watered down it'll be see-through. We haven't even seen LIEberman take his bite out of the apple yet. Speaking of which, why does that guy still have a committee chairmanship? Why not strip him and send his disingenuous ass to caucus with the rest of the Rethuglicans?

And the real question is, where is Obama in all this? Shouldn't he be out there twisting arms and making things happen? When I held my nose and forced myself to vote for a major-party candidate last November, I did so because I was promised change. But I'm not seeing change in the Senate -- I'm seeing the same venal wingnuttery I did under W. I'm not seeing change in the continued capture of our fiscal policy by big business. I'm not seeing change in our country's policies towards gay servicepeople. I'm not seeing change in the status of the 240 "enemy combatants" whose civil liberties are being pissed on in Guantánamo. Where is this "change" we were told about?

When do we admit to ourselves that this guy broke his promises to the progressive movement?

Sorry, diary... I shouldn't get worked up over Washington being Washington. It's just maddening. I feel like a chump for putting even a scintilla of faith in this DINO.

On the job front, I get the sense that Nellie's not going to play me much anymore. I can't really blame him -- I'm so bad at basketball, it's almost silly.

Still worked up. I'm gonna go to firedoglake and blow off some steam. Will put up some cap-and-trade thoughts a little later.