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DDay on the emerging healthcare fiasco:

This just perfectly captures the fact that there's an America inside the Village and one outside. Outside the Beltway, more than 3/4 of all Americans believe "it's important for Americans to have a choice between a public/government insurance plan and a private one." Inside the Beltway, Republicans and insurance companies don't like it, so we should just scrap it. Daschle is essentially saying that the prospect of reform is too important to actually include reform.

...Tom Daschle has been folding like a cheap suit since before I was born. And he's no longer in Congress or the White House. But this is the kind of bipartisan Village elder circle jerk that gets all the ink in Washington.

Go read the whole thing.

Also see: Ezra.