Lawrence O'Donnell: Beltway Hasbeen

I kinda sorta liked him, so much that I allowed him to convince me he actually knew something about reconciliation that I didn't. No more.
Andrew Sullivan was rude enough to remind me of my misplaced trust today.

“Pelosi said that, ‘We don’t have the votes for passing the Senate bill’ and that should have just ended it. Any discussion of another scenario is juvenile. ... We’re absolutely in full fake cheerleading mode. I think Nancy Pelosi has absolutely no moves left. I think she knows that now," Lawrence O'Donnell, the Democratic Senate Finance Committee staff director during the ’93-’94 health care debate, on February 1 this year.