The public option: Next year, we'll remember who did the right thing.

El Gato Negro has a message for our dear friends, the Blue Cross Dog ConservaDems: Remember all those people who worked so hard to get you elected? We want to see real health care reform, with a robust public option, become reality.

Next year, we'll remember who did the right thing.

Comments

[big bad wolf]

blue cross dogs is very nice.

[litbrit]

Ah, I can't take credit even for that--it's all Gato's.

[litbrit]

(BTW, I've noticed that Typepad has assigned me a sea-blue/aqua throwing-star thingie as my avatar--the same one keeps appearing with every comment I leave. Which is kind of cool, since sea-blue/aqua happens to be my favorite color. Still, Typepad, a throwing star? Am I *that* fearsome and threatening? Still, I like the colors Typepad has chosen for everyone and fear that if I upload a photo for my own avatar, it would throw off the Feng Shui of every comment thread thereafter.

[kathy a.]

i thought your avatar looked more like gears, deborah.

[Sir Charles]

The avatars are very cool -- mine seems to be some sort of green and white mollusk.

[Corvus9]

Mine changed. At first I had the red off-center design, now I have the purple spider web. I wonder how it goes about assigning them. Does it have something to do with posting frequency?

[litbrit]

For a computer program, the color-selection is very good. I could see doing a room in these shades.

kathy, yeah, gears too! Turning away in my poor little head, giving me grief.

[Stephen]

The next time Typepad crashes, I'm sure we'll all be very glad that the avatars none of us can see are pretty. Yay them for getting their priorities straight.

[big bad wolf]

color and style of the avatar seems to vary, though not with each posted comment and the variation is not in any pattern that i have yet discerned. discernment, however, is not my strong point.

deborah, on yours this thread, i see a sun with waves rising to it. typepad may be unreliable, but it's providing us with a bit of a new game.

[Prup (aka Jim Benton)]

I liked my avatar when it first popped up, and am *shudder* thankful to TP for letting me keep it.

On TP 'crashes' please remember -- if you get a 'can not accept this data' copy the post, open COG in a new tab or window, and paste it gthere, and it goes through every time.

And on the ostensible topic of the post, my 'almost Representative'[*] Anthony Weiner has a great list on his website. To quote:

"A new study by Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Queens & Brooklyn), member of the Health Subcommittee and Co-Chair of the Caucus on the Middle Class, revealed that 151 members of the House and Senate currently receive government-funded; government-administered single-payer health care - Medicare.

On the list of recipients are 55 Republicans who have steadfastly opposed other Americans getting the public option, like the one they have chosen.

Weiner said, “Even in a town known for hypocrisy, this list of 55 Members of Congress deserve some sort of prize. They apparently think the public option is ok for them, but not anyone else.”

He lists them. No major surprises.

He goes

[Prup (aka Jim Benton)]

Oops, forgot the [*]. It's bad enough that, since I've been in Brooklyn, the dividing line for the Wriner -- previously Schumer -- Congressional District was first 4, then six blocks away from my house, but Weiner was a City Councilman before he was a Representative, and his district line ran right in front of my house. I was out of it, but once I crossed the street ... What's worse, for some reason the line zigged so that it was only my block where this was true, every other block the line was a street over.

[oddjob]

Toast, of Two Glasses, has posted a nice, very quick, summation of what the Congress is considering regarding healthcare reform.

(Of course, the biggest, strongest, and therefore best reform would be single payer, but apparently not enough legislators have the nerve to go there yet.)

[oddjob]

What's worse, for some reason the line zigged so that it was only my block where this was true, every other block the line was a street over.

Redistricting..........

God, if only the parties had the guts to abandon that practice to a non-partisan committee the way Iowa does it!

[oddjob]

OT, but related:

In today's installment of crazy stupid shit from the GOP we are informed by Sen. Hatch that the passage of a health care reform bill with a public option threatens the future of the two party system........

Hat tip, TPM.

[oddjob]

On a somewhat related note, a new Facebook page:

"If Joe Lieberman filibusters healthcare, I will donate to his opponent."

(No, the opponent has not yet been decided, but that's not the point.)