Health Care Public Option: Status Urgent

UPDATE BELOW
Bob Reich (Shorty's namesake) has a chilling update on what's going on in D.C. with insurers and Big Pharma voodooing away the most crucial part of the health care bill. This is upon us folks. It's anybody's guess whether Teddy Kennedy and the others can win out.
Did I say Kabuki?
Anyway, here's the crucial fact and here's how you do it.

Let your representative and senators know you want a public option without conditions or triggers -- one that gives the public insurer bargaining leverage over drug companies, and pushes insurers to do what they've promised to do. Don't wait until the concrete hardens and we've lost this battle.

Here's where to find your Congress critters.
I recommend FAXing because I think it's more effective, but you can e or snail mail, too.
Here's the free internet FAX site, extremely useful, bookmark it for yourself.
Here's what I'm writing. Feel free to plagiarize.

Dear Sen. Murray, Today Robert Reich has published a chilling summary at the Talking Points Memo blog about the behind-the-scenes machinations in Washington, D.C. this week over the emerging health care plan. I urge you to firmly support inclusion of a public option in a health insurance plan without any watering down, without conditions or triggers. Thank you for your attention to this matter and all you do for your constituents. Yours truly,


UPDATE: Oh, Okay. EE wants me to publish the FAX numbers of the two Washington senators from Washington State just to make things easy for Contrariennes in my home state.
Reps you have to look up yourselves.
Patty Murray--202-224--0238

Oh Dear

The clam prom dress you've always wanted.

 

this is what happens when the news is dead for two days in a row and The Contraienne is forced to go looking for material. And for my artsy sisters,  Craftastrophe!

Meg Ryan's Back

and apparently has been able to repair whatever damage the tabs claim her plastic surgeon caused. Great cast in this movie. Did you know that Claire Booth Luce, who wrote The Women, had a fling with Raold Dahl, the British children's author who later married Patricia Neal, who had an affair with Gary Cooper?
Clearly, you were never a movie buff. Quick, what was Cary Grant's real name.* Okay, how about Bob Hope.*

* Archie Leach
* Leslie (something)



And oh, my dear, you should see the hats.

Liddy!

Oh, dear, Dole has to do it herself? That's a darn shame, because she proved to be such an incompetent fundraiser and strategist as NRSC chair in 2006, that the Republicans lost six of seven competitive Senate races that year.