"The united states has two parties now—the Obama Party and the Fox Party. The Obama Party is larger, but it is unfocused and its troops are whiny. The Fox Party, which shows up en masse to harass politicians, is noisy and practiced in the art of simplistic obstruction."
—Jonathan Alter
Regarding "whiny" -- I initially took offense at this. Then I read some comment threads at Firedoglake and C&L and second guessed my initial reaction. It's the first week of September 2008 all over again. "Obama needs to [blank]" and "we're gonna lose" all over again. This time with a strong current of "the public option sucked anyway."
Ugh. We don't even have a final bill yet and everyone's packing their shit and going home.