Steve Benen makes an uncomfortably good point here:
What's more, let's not forget that the existing Senate Democratic plan -- with no public option and no Medicare buy-in -- is already far more ambitious and much more progressive than what Howard Dean was proposing just five years ago.
This is very true. I like Dean a lot, but his healthcare reform plan in 2004 didn't contain any sort of public health insurance plan whatsoever. (By the way, his Afghanistan position was just as hawkish as President Obama's position is today, if not more so.)
We're all angry, but I strongly urge those with voices more powerful than mine to ease up on the "kill the bill" language.