Demoralized Rolling Stone hipster Matt Taibbi joins in a moment of guilty grinning with the casually gloomy MSNBC scold Rachel Maddow -- before the pair observe that the Committee on Public Option Safety may have gone a league or two over the line in making deals with Big Pharma Satan and his Insurance Ghouls. You will recall that in the original Thermidorian Reaction, late July 1794, the chagrined revolutionaries voted the guillotine for the overwrought ex-representative Robespierre and his cronies. Does this mean that the tempestuous but weary revolutionaries, momentarily numbed by the blood-letting in the Democratic Party, have decided to turn on our modern Robespierres and Marats? Who might Robespierre be 220 years later?  Wee, trim lad, likes to foment.