Take Your Medicine

Drug store. Seneca, Kansas.
John Vachon, 1940
Library of Congress, FSA/OWI archive

The unpalatable pill did get a sugar coating, at least as far as the media was concerned: the sudden emergence of Bipartisan Human Interest Story .

Or, as Digby says, Congresswoman Giffords' surprise return to the House was "a great way to make this vote for The Deal a nearly sacred act."

It's wonderful that she is making such incredible progress after the brain injury. But the coverage, with its tone of "the system works, and we're all friends in the end," was making me gag.

It also makes me wonder if the next thing will be for Rep. Giffords to give a public blessing of Super Congress...

Matt Taibi's take is probably right—and was the only possible outcome, if the donors are to get the Democratic Party results they've paid for.