Looks like the defeatists at the SEIU (whose leadersheep have consistently ignored resolutions passed by their membership at their national convention) have mobilized their fan boiz in blogospehre.

Meteor Blades

All but its most delusional fans have known since well before November 4 that single-payer's near-term chances are - short of some fracture in the space-time continuum - a sliver above absolute zero.

We’ll see about that.

Edit - see comment.

Chris Bowers

Without the 60-vote option available to Republicans on health care, that makes enough to pass a public option in the health care bill. As such, it could really happen. And it needs to happen, as it is the only real way to keep down health care costs and make health care available to everyone.

Oh really? Define public plan. Because a Jim Crow plan which siphones money off to the third party parasite that administered it would not provide care. Blogger boiz have a hard time distinguishing between health insurance and health care. There would be a difference.

Dave Sirota

I've found in my work on health care that professional advocates of single payer seem to believe their biggest enemies are those who support single payer, but short of that, would also support a robust public option in a non-single payer universal system.

You poor little thing. Incidentally, Sirota lives in Colorado where a single payer initiative recently went down to defeat in the legislature. Would Sirota’s blogging in its defense at Open Left have made a difference? You would have to know something about Colorado politics to answer that question. But I am very underwhelmed by those who declare defeat before they have even tried.

The real question is why this sudden burst of defeatists posts on health care? I suspect it has to do with the brave action of the single payer advocates who were arrested at the Senate Budget Committee hearing. Baucus thought that he had blocked their access to the table. It did not occur to him that they would crash the table. Truly, your humble servant was reminded the original sit down strike at the South African Embassy, when TransAfrica announced that they would keep up their demonstrations until Apartheid was abolished. I mean, how practical was that? But they won (Ok, the people of South Africa won). There is a lesson there for those who would heed it.

This is national nurses week and our friends are observing it in big style. Coming up is the National Day of Action. Clearly the opposition is seriously concerned.

In summary, I would like to dedicate this to health care defeatists everywhere.