Hello? Harry Reid? Rahm Emmanuel? Barack Obama?
I won't flatter myself into thinking that you're actually reading this, but your messaging is tone-deaf and you appear to have all the instincts of political ostriches these days, so somebody has to lay it out in clear language.
I'll be blunt. I couldn't give half a crap about your 60th vote. I care about 50-50 plus Joe Biden, if that's what it takes to get decent legislation passed. If Republicans and conservative Democrats want to filibuster good healthcare legislation, so be it. Let them explain themselves to the American people.
Let them explain why a public option that works for veterans and people over 65 can't work for everybody else.
Let them explain why all those people between 55 and 64 years old just saw the door slam shut thanks to one Senator from Connecticut.