“AS ONE SOURCE PUT IT: ‘BOTH SIDES WILL STILL HAVE FOLKS WHO MAKE EGREGIOUS ERRORS, BUT AT LEAST GLENN BECK WILL BE IN AN INDUSTRY WHERE THEY DON’T ALLOW CRYING’.“ 

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The Resurrection of the Public Option, at All Hat No Cattle.

Madkane on the Bystander President?

Dan Kurtzman: Finally, an Accurate Description of The Daily Show.

       It is a dark time for the Health Care Reformers.  Although the Insurance Company Death Panels have been destroyed, Insurance Lobbyists and Blue Dogs have driven the Reform forces from their Congressional offices and pursued them across the Washington Mall. 
      Evading the dreaded Imperial Republicans, a group of public option freedom fighters led by Ron Wyden and Nancy Pelosi have established a new secret base in one of Keith Olbermann’s health clinics in the remote ice world of Mt. Olympia Snowe.
    The evil lord Mitch McConnell, obsessed with filibustering health reform, has dispatched thousands of remote anal probe examinations with hefty co-pays and deductibles into the far reaches of Democratic sphincters ….

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Jon Perr on how Americans are already self-rationing health care.

Lisa Casey on the fall, and fall, of the Republican Party.

Check out Marty’s excellent entertainment page at BartCopE!

“NOT ONLY WILL WE KEEP PLAYING THIS OVER AND OVER ON A CONTINUOUS LOOP, BUT WE’RE GONNA’ SUPPORT LEGISLATION REQUIRING KEITH OLBERMANN TO GET HIS HEALTH INSURANCE FROM THE FOX NEWS OPTION.”

Special Comment at HufffPost, and  P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash: The politics of the public option withers on.

“OF COURSE WE WANT TO PROVIDE INSURANCE FOR THE UNBORN CHILD, BUT ANY HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT OCCUR AFTERWARDS HAVE TO BE EXCLUDED AS ARISING FROM THE PRE-EXISTING CONDITION OF BIRTH.”

“THE INSURANCE COMPANY LOBBYISTS TELL US THEIR CLIENTS ARE PREPARED TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM OF PRIVATE PAY TOILETS WITH HIGH PREMIUMS, AND IF SOMEONE’S BLADDER HAPPENS TO BURST, COVERAGE WILL SIMPLY BE DENIED AS A PEE-EXISTING CONDITION.”

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The Protect Insurance Companies PSA, at One Good Move.

P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash: Without public financing of political campaigns, expect endless yesterdays.

“THE UN IS LIKE THE PUBLIC OPTION ON THE ‘SPEAKING IN TONGUES,’ WHEN THAT SHOULD BE THE SOLE PROVINCE OF THE GOP BASE.”

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Jon Perr with the background and the latest installment of The Adventures of Huck “Thin on common sense,” and Madkane on Newt’s Bilingual Newspeak.

Lisa Casey has the real Private Option in America.

“FORGET ABOUT EIGHT DAYS FOR A BRISS, BEFORE THE ONE GOVERNMENT MOHEL GETS AROUND TO YOUR GRANDSON, HE’LL BE AS OLD AS ABRAHAM, AND HAVE TO DO IT HIMSELF.”

“Let me tell ya’, it was so painful, I would’ve preferred insurance company rescission , over self- circumcision.”

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Staying on topic, P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash on Another day, more Blue Dog angst.

“WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH CARE REFORM, WHAT WE REALLY NEED IN WASHINGTON IS SOMETHING THAT CAN ROLL OVER THE REPUBLICANS AND BLUE DOGS … AND WE DON’T CARE IF IT LEAVES TRACKS.”

“INSTEAD OF RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION, WE THINK GOVERNOR PATTERSON CAN BEST SERVE THE CAUSE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM BY UNDERTAKING EMPLOYMENT WITH PRIVATE INSURERS … IN CHARGE OF THEIR UNITS THAT LOOK FOR WAYS TO DENY CLAIMS.”

“WELCOME. PLEASE FORGET ABOUT THE QUARTERBACK OPTION FOR A MOMENT, WHILE I DISCUSS THE PUBLIC OPTION.”