The Public Option

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) tells constituent "go work for the federal government" for affordable insurance!

Clinton and Healthcare

For the past several days we have been subjected to endless hours of analysis from the cable pundits speculating about Senator Hillary Clinton's roll in an Obama administration. Was she offered the Secretary of State post? If so, will she accept it? Would Bill have a problem in the vetting process? If not, would he be able stay on the straight an narrow? How would it affect Bill's Global Initiative?

Or, is all this all just show?

In this morning's LA Times Noam Levery reports that Senator Ted Kennedy has offered Senator Clinton a lead roll in the new Senate healthcare team.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who has announced plans to craft sweeping healthcare legislation next year, asked the former presidential contender to head a working group focused on insurance coverage.

The potential assignment comes a decade and a half after Clinton led a controversial effort to reshape the healthcare system as first lady during her husband's first term in the White House. That campaign collapsed amid bitter opposition from many in the healthcare industry and accusations that Clinton ran a secretive process that ignored input from important stakeholders.

Is this Clinton's out? Can she now turn down the Secretary of State job and work on the project that has consumed a good portion of her public life, and the one area--other than her vote to authorize use of force in Iraq--that arguably might be called her biggest legislative failures?

Uh -oh! Those Really Mean Liberals are at it AGAIN

Looks like all those really mean tofu-eating, panty wearing Liberals are being really mean to those really tough Right Wing Patriots. Boy it sure is scary out in that blogosphere with all those wild-eyed Lefties being really mean to all those really tough (but really nice) People on the Right. Gosh, I hope no Lions, Tigers or Bears get them.

My Pet Capricorn

Dana Goldstein at The American Prospect has an excellent piece on the Jenna Bush Book Tour.

As her father threatens to veto the entire $34 billion 2008 foreign aid budget just because congressional Democrats have finally snuck in loopholes providing condoms and abortion services to women in the developing world, Jenna is on a nationwide book tour and media blitz, spreading the message that safe sex and education are some of the most important tools in fighting disease.

Maybe she can read it to her Father. I just don't know if the atavistic former Cheerleader can stay focused long enough to absorb the content.