“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill.”

Howard Dean, upon the death of democracy in America as evidenced by the utter failure of a 60-seat Dem majority in Senate and greater majority in House to pass basic healthcare reform in 2009.

The Dems simply won't learn this rule: DON'T BRING A KNIFE TO A GUN FIGHT. The Dems will not play hardball for some reason.

Obama should use the Presidency as a bully pulpit to say that Joe Liebermann is the biggest sac of worm$hit to ever hold office, and the people of Connecticut should thow him out on his a$$.

Liebermann and his so-called moderate Dems are in the POCKET of BIG INSURANCE, INC.

The new 'reform' is going to be windfall for the same insurance companies that caused the problem. It might cause millions like me, young people, who really don't need to buy insurance... yet... to buy it, spending 3, 4, or 5K a year out of their effing pockets. Money they DON'T have in this economy. And to whom? To the same companies that caused the problem! Its really indescribably evil and wicked.

Democracy is dead in America, when a grassroots progressive idea swells into a bill... and then that bill is derailed by liars and theives like Liebermann... and then the Dems HAVE to pass something so it looks like they're total failures... so now the new bill is WRITTEN BY the insurance companies to pad their pockets and further screw over the American people! Unbelievable!