Lex offers a detailed assessment of why the progressives might not be bat—t crazy. I'm so confused.

Here's just a taste of what Lex had to say:

Just how bad has Joe Lieberman crapped all
over the whole debate on health-care reform? Bad enough that right now,
I think it’s time he not only gets no health care, it’s time he gets
intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as yet
undiscovered. I mean, really, what kind of sociopath do you have to be
to disregard those 45,000 annual deaths and singlehandedly chop up a
bill to create something that:

• Mandates that every American buy expensive insurance from private
  companies without the choice of a public option and lets the IRS fine
  you if you don’t
• Severely taxes middle-class health care plans, rather than wealthy individuals
• Increases insurance premiums about $1,000 a year
• Increases health care costs
• Continues to exempt health-insurance companies from antitrust laws, inhibiting competition
• Provides a sweet deal for pharmaceutical manufacturers while
  denying the government the ability to negotiate for lower drug prices
  for Medicare, something Democrats actually promised three years ago.
• Apparently won’t let the government import drugs from cheaper foreign sources. I’m told my own junior senator, Kay Hagan, was arguing tonight that this was a “safety” issue, which must come as a surprise to the dozens of other countries that do this every day.
• Grants monopolies on new biologic drugs so they will never become generics
• Offers NO public option
• Offers NO Medicare expansion, even in return for payment, for 55- to 64-year-olds.
• Limits insurance-company payouts, contrary to President Obama’s promise in September
• Raises taxes in January while not beginning benefits until 2014.

Really, I'm sooooo confused which makes me believe that the powers-that-be have us just where they want us.