Paul Krugman explains the agonizing process of supporting the bill and seriously disputes the notion that we're anything like the liberal supporters of the Iraq invasion.
Detailing the agonizing, impossible decision to support that bill was more or less the point of my Wednesday Huffington Post column. It's been a painful week, needless to say. But I can assure you, my decision to support the bill (for what that support is worth) comes from a careful analysis of the realities of healthcare reform -- knowing full well that this position might alienate you and some of my friends in the progressive tubes.
Anyway, Krugman's closing paragraph isn't quite so delicate:
And maybe I’m being unfair, but I don’t seem to see the same degree of soul-searching on the other side. Too much of what I read seems to come from people who haven’t really faced up to what it will mean for progressive hopes — not to mention America’s uninsured — if health care reform crashes and burns, yet again.
Krugman is saying that the kill-billers are kneejerking. Snap.