Reid: We'll Get A Health Care Bill By Any Means Necessary

I listen to flatulence with more rapt attention than anything Reid has to say.

Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but when Harry Reid says "By any means necessary", I assume he means "I will water this bill down and bend over backwards to accommodate my Senate Republican colleagues who are just going to vote against it anyway."

Say it with me, once again-

You can bypass the filibuster with just Democrats. Bipartisanship is not necessary to pass a good bill.

Is there any value at all to having the filibuster? So far I have seen it prevent civil rights legislation and prevent the passage of desperately needed health care reform.

I have seen no occasion when it did anything FOR America. It just protects the wealthy oligarchs.

Perhaps the sickness of right-wing conservative/Republican culture has finally expressed itself to the point that Democrats understand no bipartisanship will be possible. Watching these right-wing town-hall protesters is frightening. The unconscious Nihilism -- the deeply tragic view that all is ultimately futile for terrible, rotten human beings, who can't really deserve any conceivable good -- long-concealed within traditional Republican and conservative rhetoric about their so-called 'values', is noticeably coming to the surface, unveiling its brute ugliness, in a striking way due to this particular debate.