Sure, sure, let’s build a snowman—but is it true snow, or just an icy mockery of a snowman?!!!1!!

I’m trying to explore this analogy.

So, when the man shot the guy who wanted to sing and dance while building a snowman was that like the way Obama cheated in the primary?  Was the snowman Russia, as in “I can see a snowman from my house?”  Or was the snowman like the cardboard Hillary, and the dancing man was like Jon Favreau?

Oh, I get it. PB 1.0 is cannibalizing itself.

I will not accept any Medicare-for-all plan that is not named “Beowulf.” I am drawing a line in the snow, er, sand on this point!

Here’s how I read it:

At the outset, the group is hopelessly lost in the wilderness and faced with the prospect of sickness and eventual death (i.e., the present health care system). Because they are strained, angry and unable to agree on even a desperate compromise plan (i.e., the Progressive Blogosphere in disarray), one of them goes insane and proposes the utterly irrational scheme of building a snowman (i.e., joining forces with the Teabaggers, running Patty Hearst against Obama in the 2012 primary).

The “snowman” is a protean concept that can be whatever you want it to be (classical populism, David Bowie, Legos), but in the end does nothing to alleviate sickness and death (paralyzed three-party Congress, Dayquil, sweat lodges), and is eventually destroyed by a deranged man with a pickax (unsustainable alliances with ideological rivals, the CERN supercollider, asteroid Apophis).

The second time the insane individual proposes building a different snowman (December 2010), another deranged man shoots him in the head (historical forces, permanent Conservative majority, unpaid hosting bills, salaried gig as the replacement for Juan Williams on the Fox All-Stars).

Hope that helps.

Let me see if I follow. The snowman represents Harry Ried’s red herring of a bill that “proves” the democrats are really on the ball and doing something for the American people who can’t possible appreciate it. The deranged lunatic that knocks the first snowman down is Howard Dean. The little fellow who does the little song and dance, lets call him Bill, wants to build the perfect snowman, i.e. to have everyone have a perfect health care plan, represents Obama, but Obama doesn’t know how to construct a snowman that appeals to everyone and relieve their anxiety. Therefore, it’s up to Mitch McConnel and the hard core, murderous, hawk-like, do-nothing Republicans to do something to make it all go away. The answer is to Kill Bill. The five point, palm exploding heart technique is too difficult to learn quickly, so the bullet induced exploding head technique will have to suffice.

Bob, there is no room on Rumproast for your brand of bitter cynicism.

However, I’ll clear a space right now. Merry Christmas!

I can’t wait for the inevitable articles that point out that the whole public option thing was nothing more than a shiny object meant to keep everyone distracted while Sanders ran an end-around with his CHC amendment.

Once Ed Schultz and the rest of the progressive base get over their vendetta with the insurance companies, they’re going to see that this is a pretty good bill, warts and all.

My name’s not Bob, Strange.  And thank you. Hee-haw and Merry Christmas!  Sam Bob Wainwright.

Thanks for correcting me, “Shishka.”