The horrible Ceci strikes again

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062702232.html?hpid=topnews

This is quite an irritating and snarky article in the wapo about those silly, silly people and organizations that support the public option for health care. It was written by the poisonous Ceci Connolly, who was absolutely insufferable during the 2000 campaign, and promulgated several lies about Al Gore that became the dreaded conventional wisdom that he was a serial exaggerator. She reported that when Gore was talking about the Love Canal, he claimed that he "...was the one that started it all..." She never apologized, but weakly said something along the lines of, Well, may not have accurately quoted him, but it was sort of true, and that the in context was correct. She takes no responsibility in helping usher in eight years of hell, from which we are yet to recover. In this article, she implies, with several anonymous quotes, that pressure from the left is going to doom any chance of health care reform. She says, among other things, that support for the public option goes down if it would mean that health insurance companies would fail, although it doesn't say by how much. As Obama pointed out, if health insurance companies are so great why would a public option cause them to fail? Anyone who has had a serious illness can attest that even if you have health insurance, it can be your life's work to get the benefits one is entitled to. None of the DC conventional wisdom crowd commented on Jay Rockefeller's report on the price fixing of the insurance companies do on the reimbursement rate for people who go out of network. This piece of news is no surprise to anyone who has gone out of network. There is this notion that if you go out of network, you get what you deserve, that it is some sort of effete luxury. Well, few go out of network unless they have to, because it is such a royal pain. The health insurance companies exist to make money and make money they do. So a little competition from other means of providing health care is not a bad thing, maybe they will start behaving better. Hmmm, insurance companies behaving better? I must be loosing it. That is like the thought that Ceci might write a fair article.

Salute, please

http://washingtonindependent.com/23827/dianne-feinstein-not-too-pleased-with-panetta-pick
I read that Leon Panetta is being appointed to head the CIA. Diane Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller are not pleased. Now, that is good news. I was initially surprised by the appointment of Panetta, but this makes me think it might be a good one. Jay Rockefeller has been terrible, and I doubt that Diane will be much better. I think that it was very bad form for ole Diane to complain in public. In public all she should say right now is, "Yes sir. How much, sir. Whatever you say, sir." Why do the dems feel that the time to develop a spine is when a dem is elected president. Where have those two been the past eight years? On their knees, that's where.