Blue Dog Hell

Paul Krugman's column in today's New York Times is on the same them as my post yesterday. Forget the Republicans in Congress -- they were never going to support Obama on anything anyway. Those who want a public option in helath insurance should focus on the so-called "moderate" Dems.

We Didn't Drink the Kool Aid!

Who would've thunk it! After all the incessant and unbearable MSM propaganda excoriating the supposed cluelessness -- if not the outright un-American-ness! -- of Obama's proposal that John and Jane Q. Public should have the option of joining the same sort of public health insurance plan available to their Congresspersons and Senators, today's New York Times provides a Gestalt altering jolt: The people have tuned out the media whores! They have figured it all out on their own. They want a public option. They are prepared to pay more for the public option, if needed. They are not scared by the bogeymen being paraded on TV by Conservatives for Patients' Rights, the Republican Party, the health insurance industry, their lobbyists, and the bought-and-paid-for media. Maybe they even think Michael Moore was right in "Sicko."

See the article for yourself: "In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health" by KEVIN SACK and MARJORIE CONNELLY, The New York Times, June 20, 2009. Here are the opening paragraphs:

Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The poll found that most Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes so everyone could have health insurance and that they said the government could do a better job of holding down health-care costs than the private sector.

Now, will Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Max Baucus (D-MT), Bill Nelson (D-FL), and other such let's-give-in-even-before-the-fight-has-truly-begun Democrats finally set aside their "co-op plans" and other distractions and fight for the President's plan? Don't bet on it, but at least they can no longer go on TV and say that "the American people" do not support the public option.