Remember When We Thought America Was Going Progressive?

Those were good times.

Now, of course, Baucus not only gets to let former health insurance veeps dictate what Americans will be forced to buy, but apparently he's going to gut the climate change bill, too. No doubt to make as many Republicans and lobbyists happy as possible.

All this by a man who represents a vanishingly small percentage of the American people.

Forget getting rid of Republicans. The Republicans are irrelevant. Wilson is a sideshow that has been seized upon by Dems like manna from heaven to distract from the realities of the health care situation. The key goal was, is, and will remain getting rid of bad Dems.

The more, the merrier.