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Atrios. : A bit tired of people demanding that progressives support a bill which doesn't exist, even as conservative assholes continue to make it worse.. One shouldn't agree to deals which don't even exist. Indeed, this is a mystery. People are so quick to rush to embrace a bill that's not set in stone, which has been consistently eroded over the past year, at an exponentially accelerated pace, with each major concessions not just making the bill worse, but emboldening critics to make further demands. As crappy as the bill is now, it's inevitably getting worse, and then, it'll get even worse after that. And every time progressives shrug their shoulders and say, "all right, we'll take whatever we can get", you empower those critics. Rather than draw a line in the sand and bolster the efforts of true reformists, you are leaving them high and dry. And the weaker progressives get, the more Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman and Blanche Lincoln and the rest of that bunch can do to make this not
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