Stayed up way too late last night watching the vote on health care reform and then reading the wrapups and whatnot online. Apparently this ushers in a new socialist utopia (wait... what? they told me that was mutually exclusive). Which my only question is: if it starts this morning does that mean I don't have to go to work today? Cos if not I could really use the sleep.
Other than that, I have to wonder if some of the haters-from-the-left have noticed (or will any point) that they've made common cause with people who think spitting, yelling insults and slurs, and generally threatening violence are good political strategies. Yeah, yeah... I'm sure everyone at FDL has already internalized some bullshit about how they're not like that. Or the enemy of my enemy etc etc yadda yadda stfu...
ANYway, Balloon Juice and Great Orange Satan got out first with this but I couldn't resist. I read something last week, in response to all the Repubs concern trolling about how the health care reform battle was gonna be President Obama's Waterloo. It was by a British writer (can't remember where I saw this or I'd link to it) and he pointed out that, from the British perspective, Waterloo was actually a great moment in history. Either way, it's never a bad time to hear some Abba: