"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

So Nancy Pelosi wants a public insurance option that would reimburse providers at the sames rates as Medicare. The proposal is popular, except among Blue Dogs, who enjoy a steady diet of insurance industry cock.

To get a bill out of committee, Pelosi approves Henry Waxman's deal with Blue Dogs, which offers public reimbursement at rates more friendly to the insurance industry. Suck City, but at least there's movement.

Now Arkansas Blue Dog Mike Ross says he won't support a public option, no way no how. Ross- who was pretty obviously paid off by a major pharmaceutical company last year - has welshed on the deal. So Pelosi has moved on, and reinserted the Medicare-pegged public option proviso. Fair's fair, right?


That's not how conservatives see it. "Pelosi backs away from deal with Blue Dogs," says the Hill. Da fuck? Nancy has "double-crossed" the Blue Dogs, according to the Weasel Zippers blog.

Am I missing something? Wasn't it Ross who pulled out of the deal? Why paint Pelosi as the heavy in this piece?

On a side note, the Weasel Zippers motto is "scouring the Bowels of the Internet so you Don't Have To." [Whimsical capitalization from the original.] What is it with conservatives and their anocentric imagery?