Last night I was listening, as is my habit, to America Left. Great stuff. Seismic sighs, rage, admissions of wanton drunkenness, cuss words right and left. One woman, whose name I cannot remember owing to laughing too hard, was moaning about the seemingly failed attempt at socialized medicine. For now.

She was adamant that Nanski Peloski summon the votes to pass the Senate bill and then work it out in reconciliation. The fact that Peloski cannot do it didn't hold water with her--it must be done so that we can have socialized medicine as soon as possible.

Practicality didn't come into it. Nor did the opinions of the individual House members. Nor did any analysis of this bill's virtues come into it. The Holy Grail for her was socialized medicine, and how she got it didn't matter, nor did the quality of what she got.

I now understand what a True Believer is.