Mistake Number One

Reading Digby on health-care reform first thing in the morning. I mean, c'mon -- I have high blood pressure, I should know not to do that. Particularly when she throws that bottom-feeder Joe Lieberman into the mix:

SCHIEFFER: But is what you’re also saying is that nothing is better than a government health insurance, or a health insurance reform that includes a public option? Nothing is better than that?

LIEBERMAN: Well, the truth is that nothing is better than that because I think we ought to follow, if I may, the doctor’s oath in Congress as we deal with health care reform, do no harm.

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What we only suspected last week, when Harry Reid refused to say if he had the votes, is now right out there on the table. This is the blueprint for passing the bill. I guessed (although I obviously don't know for sure) that it is a strategy that was planned from the beginning --- throw the opt-out to the lefty fools, get them all excited and on board, and then pull this switcheroo and tell everyone it's really the same thing. It will force public option advocates to babble about the details of opt-in vs opt-out, and that's a difficult argument, which most people won't instinctively see as substantial. Smart move.

I'd say write your senators, but unless your an insurance company I doubt it will do any good.