Pelosi and the "Consumer Option" - If we weren't all crazy we would all go insane!

I am ashamed to admit that I am finding the antics of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid turning themselves inside out trying to come up with a health care bill that is acceptable to a sufficient number of their members to ensure passage extremely amusing.

The senate conference committee comes up with a bill without a public option and Republican Senator Olivia Snowe of Maine goes along with and they send it to Harry Reid who praises Senator Snowe for her "bi-partianship" and then immediately places the public option back in the bill whereupon Senator Snowe abruptly withdraws her support.\

Uh Oh!..."Danger Will Robinson, Danger!"

Harry Reid, in a ridiculous attempt to shore up a listing ship, then introduces an "opt out option" for individual states if the bill is passed.

Great idea!

What State Governor in his or her right mind would opt out of an enitlement program knowing that the citizens of that state will still have to pay the increased taxes for benefits they will not receive because their state "opted out" of the program.

Joe Liberman, the Independent/Democrat from Conneticut, immediately withdrew his support from Reid's plan upon hearing of this lunacy.

Nancy Pelosi, sensing that the health care ship has now hit an iceberg comes up with a great idea to make the "public option" more palatable to everyone concerned.

This past Monday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her ingenious idea which consisted of a new label for the “public option.” She called it the “consumer option.”

The speaker said “consumer option” conveys a more accurate impression than “public option.”

You know when politicians start changing names of policies that, for lack of a better word, "stink", they are in troubled waters. Also, it would appear that they did not read Shakespeare back in their school days. Remember, "A rose by any other name...?"

Well, when Nancy started to tak about her new "consumer option", she once again, allowed her mouth to outdistance her brain when she stated....

“I do think it better when people think of it as their option, their consumer option. Because public option is being misrepresented as being something that’s paid for by taxpayer dollars, which it is not.”

Now you really have to sit back and ponder what these politicians are drinking. If this new health care program will not be paid for by taxpayer dollars, then just who the hell is going to pay for it?

And these are the people who are going to run this trillion dollar health care program? What did Jimmy Buffet say..."If we weren't all crazy we would all go insane!"

Peter J. Mahon