Why is it that it is easier to take the country into war without justification than it is to ensure that every American is entitled to health care? Progressives are being cautioned not to squeal too loud over the admittedly watered-down health care proposals inching their way through Congress because they are "the best we can do", and the nature of our system is deliberate and incremental and we need to get a foot in the door, the camel's nose under the tent, half a loaf, not sacrificing the good in search of the perfect, just pick your metaphor.

We are told there are not 60 votes for a "robust" public option and we have watched the kabuki dance of the past nine months of trying to partner up with a Republican, any Republican so that we can at least pretend that there is something resembling bi-partisanship. And while in the end that seems to be a fruitless exercise, we have assiduously pursued a compromise that at least all Democrats can embrace. Of course there seems to be nothing short of the status quo that will satisfy the Independent Senator from Co