I was watching the segment of Countdown below this evening, on the movement in the Senate to pass a health care “public option” through reconciliation. Keith’s first question to Chris Hayes, Washington editor of the Nation, was why is this “not creating hope among the progressives?” I instantly turned to my wife and said, “Because no one is that big a sucker. If the Democrats were a Peanuts sequence, they’d be Lucy and the football.” About 30 seconds later, Hayes finished out his answer: it’s like Lucy and the football, he said.

One of my favorite authors, Harlan Ellison, once said, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice and I’m a pervert.” I guess there must be someone around who is a big enough masochist that they actually believe in the Democrats’ ability to execute something so obvious, but as far as self-abusive behaviors go, that’s not my particular poison. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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