You can’t urinate on Tumblr today without hitting a post about HCR, and usually I try to avoid piling on to such things. Sure, the bill was watered-down, compromised, filled with GOP ‘ideas’, despite the lack of a single GOP vote, etc. It is also the largest piece of social legislation passed in 50 years. It does more to tackle health care costs than any piece of American legislation in history. It extends health insurance to 32 million more Americans. It is a win. A big one. For the President, for the American people, and for Nancy Pelosi.

After the Scott Brown debacle, she refused to step down and move to a small, incremental approach to fix the health care problem. She pressed through the embarrassing campaign of fear waged by the right, the epithets, the spitting, the cries of treason. Right up to the speeches before the vote, she put the entire year-long journey into clear relief, contrasting her calm, reasoned explanation of why this was good for America and good for the smoldering crater of greed our health care system has become with Boehner’s red-faced, screaming, salvia-spewing obstructionist bile.

She won. We won. She will become a speaker for the ages, and deservedly so. A role model for my daughters. A powerful, intelligent woman working for something bigger than herself.

This is what change feels like. I like this feeling. Let’s keep it going.