Ugly From Now On Here, As Attacks On Dean Increase

From the moment this happened, it was bound to get even nastier. Especially if thoughts of Howard Dean's stance were given full free to run:

Wow, this is really something. Senator Jay Rockefeller, who recently emerged as something of a public option hero on the left, just tore into Howard Dean on MSNBC, ripping Dean’s call on Dems to kill the Senate bill as “nonsense,” and demanding that the left stop “sulking” and start acting like “grownups.”

Asked by Andrea Mitchell about Dean’s opposition, Rockefeller said: “It’s nonsense. And it’s irrepsonsible. And coming from him as a physician, it’s stunning. And he’s wrong. Does that answer your question?”

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“Am I angry that the public option appears to have been dropped? Of course I’m angry about that,” he said. “Was I for the Medicare buy-in? Of course I was…So what do I do? do I take my footall and run home and sulk?”

Rockefeller still wasn’t finished. “I’m a grownup, you’re a grownup,” he said. “We’ve been around this business for a long time. And you never get everything you want. You don’t sulk about it. You try to keep improving the bill.”

It truly is amazing how "The guy scared of Rachel Maddow" gets no blame for acting like a spoiled, entitled A-hole, but Dean and those on the progressives die of things are he immature ones.

You know, the ones that didn't care that single player was off the table in the entire process, and figured the public option was the mature stepping stone.

So much for Rockefeller being a rock and a health care hero. I could never imagine anyone Republican talking to his or her party base to "grow" up and quit whining on a domestic issue just like "Senator Telecom immunity supporter" has clearly done here. But I guess it doesn't surprise when the White House memo of the day tells you to tickle down the message hard on Dean:

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs strongly hit back at former DNC Chairman Howard Dean for criticizing the Senate health care bill, suggesting, at one point, that Dean was being irrational and didn't understand the contents of the legislation.

"I don't know what piece of legislation he is reading," said Gibbs.

"How better do you address those who don't have insurance: passing a bill that will cover 30 million who don't currently have it or killing the bill?" he added. "I don't think any rational person would say killing a bill makes a whole lot of sense at this point."

Asked if Dean was acting irrationally, Gibbs replied: "I can't tell what his motives are, to be honest with you."

Like a nightmare unfolding in front of our eyes.