Most hardcore liberals I have read and spoken to want a single-payer health plan. The most active liberal bloggers on this issue, however, repeat the mantra of not making the perfect the enemy of the good, and they seem ready to support almost whatever health-care “reform” comes out of Congress — just as Obama is likely to sign whatever mangled beast Congress produces.

My favorite example of this comes in a blog post today from Matt Yglesias, who works for the 501(c)4 arm of the White House, known as the Center for American Progress. In this post, he manages to blame conservatives for Democrats’ embrace of crappy policy, and also mention, for the second time this week, that he went to Harvard: