Stockholm Syndrome.

That’s where hostages have positive feelings towards their captors – feelings that appear irrational in light of the danger and risk of the captivity.

Now we have a derivation –

Hartford Syndrome.

In the wake of the Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) flip-flop and flameout this morning, single payer activists were in no mood for lecturing from Howard Dean and John Conyers (D-Michigan).

At a gathering on Capitol Hill earlier today, Dean had just started in on his talk – titled “Why This is the Moment for Reform?” – when single payer activists began criticizing him for supporting of Obama’s health care legislation.