note that he does not say who gets to do the filtering, and in whose interest.

If Journolist is properly filtered and its members fully vetted, and all that comes out of it for the public is a bunch of cowering circle jerkers shooting reckless accusations at journalists who are actually doing their jobs, then I don't think Friedman's Damn Filter is working.

Glenn writes:

The White House has been sending that signal for weeks in a way that only the blindest among us can't see it.

Yeah, and a huge number of the blind are at Kos. They "trust" the president, and say that "fighting isn't his way," and that when he says he "expects" the public option to be in the bill, well, that's some damn strong language!

Why? Because it seems they want a messiah to take care of them.

But to quote the great Terry Jones in Life of Brian"

There's a mess alright, but no messiah!

Let's give Fox credit for truth in advertising when they call the Crunchy Frog confections "crunchy." They leave the bones in, otherwise they wouldn't be crunchy. Yum:

We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.

The Hamsher Nike at sig.

OMG WTF, I noticed that same thing myself about Kos. But I figure, if the WH is going to strongarm the DC liberal organizations and threaten to deprive them of funding to keep them from criticizing the administration, why wouldn't they send a bunch of people over to Kos to write obsessive and repetitive Obama-worshipping posts and to drive away people with rational critiques?

And we all know what is going to happen here. The White House is going to shit on and pressure and threaten the Progressive Caucus, and do everything it can to continue fellating the minority blue dogs. Past behavior predicts future behavior.

Pelosi is already starting to waffle on the public option.

The people lose to corporations again.

So, a big fuck you to Obama.

I think we already know what Obama is going to say tonight, based on his speech to labor. He is going to minimize the public option by mentioning it as a "part" of his "large basket" of so-called reforms. So that when it doesn't go through (as he planned all along), he will have cover. As Lawrence O'Donnell says, Obama is going by the old playbook, wherein the progressives in the party can be forced to eat shit every time it gets close to closing the deal.

I noticed that all the Obama worshippers are already claiming that none of this is his fault, that he is right to let Congress make the laws, and that there is only so much he can do, etc., etc. But as Glenn and Jane Hamsher have shown, Obama is perfectly willing to hold a gun to the progressives' heads to get what he wants, and he always has the blue dogs' backs. And he wants what is best for his corporate buddies.

But O'Donnell also said he thinks there will be an explosion in the netroots if Obama does stick to the old playbook and lets Baucus's plan go through--a plan that forces citizens, on pain of huge penalties, to buy private insurance, and includes a bunch of toothless laws that the insurance companies will easily be able to work around, as they do now. What a sick, sick culture we live in.

What a bunch of preening, self-congratulatory, oily little congress critters we have on display tonight. This is worse than the damn academy awards with all the clapping and the "aren't we great" bullshit. If they'd stop clapping this damn thing would be over with.

I imagined all those jackasses nekkid to get a laugh.

How's that for a scientific patina!

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Preston Brooks . . . actually trying to physically beat Obama.)

Whaaaa? Anyone have the details? How bizarre.

Could this be an oblique reference to the Obama No Insurer Left Behind proposal to strongarm citizens for protection money to fund our corporate-based health system?

HA HA! No shit. I just read Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article about the so-called "reform" and I am shitting my pants. People are going to be forced to buy private insurance. What. The. Fuck. Moreover, as Matt says, if they have inadequate insurance from their employer, say, Walmart, they are stuck with it and won't be allowed to buy their own.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong

Wilson is probably shitting his pants.

I'm not even a fucking American!

Yeah, go ahead, rub it in, you lucky bastard!

Disgusting.

as they have threatened to do.

Thank you. I hope that the speech didn't make everyone feel comfortable about the whole thing and cease to act. It was clear to me from the speech that Obama had no intention of fighting for the public option, but a LOT of others at democratic blogs and sites seem to be assured that he will do just that. They are so wrong.