I look on my TV, and I see Joe Lieberman smiling. Markos Molitsas tells me that Republicans are smiling. Insurance companies are still going to still make money.
I am simply flabbergasted!
When I sent $20 to Barack Obama, asked my grandmother to vote for him, and actually went to the polling place and voted for him, I did not imagine that Barack Obama would let a negotiated deal on health care reform not cover every single thing DailyKos told me I wanted.
I expected to see Joe Lieberman laying on the studio floor of a show like Meet the Press, crying, thrashing about, bemoaning that he was so frustrated and humiliated that his single vote in the Senate meant nothing.
I expected to see news coverage of Insurance Company CEO's jumping out of their windows, because the liberals had finally won, depriving them of ever being happy, ever again.
I expected to see John McCain not being able to get on TV, and when interviewed by some high school junior for a journalism class project, weeping uncontrolably, spouting unintelligible gibberish, spittle dribbling off of his bottom lip, inconsolable because conservatism had quickly, and finally been destroyed.
I have been utterly betrayed. My life will never be the same. Bloggers told me that it was imperative that the Public Option be passed, and now it looks like it wasn't. I can hardly type right now, as I am laying on the floor, too depressed to even sit up.
There is no meaning to anything anymore.
I hope Martians take over Earth, and work us to death as slaves. That would be better than a negotiated health care reform deal that can actually be extended to insure even more people.
Update: I see that I have not been recced up on the rec list. This depresses me even more. I don't know if I will ever stop cowering in frustration again.
Update 2: You know, I'm tired of not getting recced. I can't tell you how much time I spent pouring over the thesaurus and old Mad Magazines trying to make a funny snark diary mocking the prevailing sentiment here. I would like to thank everyone who did not rec me, as I didn't really want to be up on that trendy list, anyway. That's for uncreative conformists.
Update 3: I seem to have as many recs as I do updates. Maybe that's the secret.