A few quick hits to start the week off

The Senate Finance Committee version of health insurance reform is going to be voted on again Tuesday and I am, unfortunately, able to calm my eager heart. I think that the thing - health insurance reform - is going to hang together with some sort of a half-baked public option. The Republican backlash and fury machine peaked too early to do real damage, and the few Blue Dog Democrats who hate the whole thing are going to also hate being the only ones standing there with with ‘Nay’ votes denying cloture and preventing Democrats from ownership of the most important legislation since Medicare.

There was safety in numbers back in 1993.

We’ll get a product, albeit a flawed one. It’s beginning to sound like an opt-out public option may hold the day. What a lame idea, that. The very states that would opt out are those that need competition the most, but like Blue Dogs they’ll get tired of looking stupid eventually, especially when their business and industry figure out that they can move, going where their employees can get a reasonable deal on health insurance

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Friday Fish Wrap: July 24, 2009

“I think the Republicans would like to see us fail.”

Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

That’s the latest in wisdom to leak out of the steamy backrooms of Congress, as the Democratic cousins fight amongst each other like sweaty, bored kids in the back of the family station wagon. They’re missing the salient concept here of course … yes, the Republicans would sure like to see a huge, resounding failure of any effort toward enacting a modern health insurance system.

Don’t think so? Then watch the following nauseating ad:

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