[A warm welcome to the usual suspects. What took you so long? -- lambert]

Mr. Bowers loses his touch, and makes a clumsy attempt to conflate snark in a Quick Hit with commentary: "Progressive bloggers don’t write about single-payer because they are afraid of Rahm"*.

Fortunately, I assumed that "progressives" like Bowers would stoop to outright censorship at some point, so here is the post Bowers censored in order to replace with that link:

So, the question's still on the table: Why don't "progressive" bloggers cover single payer?

And now, the badge of honor!

Banned!

Finally, here's the post that Bowers is concerned to avoid answering (it was at the other end of the "can't understand" link (I think) in the screen dump above). Let me just post that screen dump for the record:

We don't really have what I'd call "power" here in the blogosphere, not yet at least. But and still: it's fascinating to read Open Left of late. If anyone can be said to be 'connected' and 'in touch' with the Village establishment, it's these folks. And Dayum! Can you say, "not happy with Mr. Hope?"

It's funny. Since I took my Pledge not to say anything negative about him until after November, it seems I can't find anything but that in the progressive blogosphere. The feeling I have isn't quite schadenfreude, nor bitterness, or even 'I told you so-ism,' but the hope (heh) that it's finally beginning, and we're coming together to see that 'third way' centrist DLC crap is just that. Crap. When 'mainstream' blogs are getting it, I can't help but smile.