Most People Want A Public Option

The public option in Obama's health care plan has been taking a beating recently. Some articles even say it might get cut out completely. Now, there is a new poll out showing a majority of people want a public option.

"A clear majority of Americans -- 72 percent -- support a government-sponsored health care plan to compete with private insurers, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds."

The fight for the public health option is vital to the United States. Health care is a basic need/right. If not fixed, it will sink the economy and only separate the haves from the have nots more that it already is.

This can not be done in a bipartisan manner. Our dem leaders need to lead and to try and get both parties involved when the repubs don't want anything coming out of the Obama administration is insane.

This needs to be done. Just get it done.

Nevada GOP Senator John Ensign Admitted to Having an Affair

Things still are going well for the repubs. It seems that the repub senator from Nevada has admitted to having an affair with a married female staffer.

Ensign is quoted as saying "I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions," at his quickly arranged press conference. So quickly arranged, he missed an important vote in DC.

What makes someone call a press conference this quickly. Someone found out and was going to tell the world.

Here's the catch. This man called on Clinton to resign during the Lewinski affair. From Think Progress

“I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it’s because of what he put his whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through,” Ensign said Thursday, becoming the first member of the Nevada delegation to call for Clinton to quit. “He has no credibility left.”

So, does that mean he's going to resign?

Obama's Clusterf*#k

Obama has been REALLY screwing things up as of late. It started with not doing anything about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Which studies show the policy actually hurts the military. He then filed a brief similar to the briefs file by the Bush administration defending the Defense of Marriage act. This was probably the biggest fuck up. (Why? Because its was BUSH'S brief. That hate monger did everything he could to screw with gay people.)

Obama effort to try and not start culture wars with the right has inadvertently alienated a core constituancy of the dem base. So, today Obama has signed a memo granting same sex benefits to federal employees.

This is good but it is reactionary. It is not leadership. It is "Oh shit, I screwed up. What can I do to make up for it." This is not enough. In order to make up for it, he needs to do more. Obama needs to lead on this not piss people off and then decide to act.

Supreme Leader of Iran Calls For Recount

Don't get excited by the headline. It is a small section of the ballots and was only called to quell the massive demonstrations that are going on right now. Demonstrations that haven't been seen since the Revolution of the 1970's.

Mousavi did not take the bait and has asked for a whole new vote. This whole election stinks and if Iran's government doesn't get this right, it could sow the seeds of long term descent.

Ahmadinejad Might Have Stolen The Election

Iranian President Ahmadinejad might have pulled off a coup. A lot has been circulating how change reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi was robbed of his election victory. John Cole has a good rundown of the evidence supporting a stolen election theory and here are his thoughts as to how it happened:

"As the real numbers started coming into the Interior Ministry late on Friday, it became clear that Mousavi was winning. Mousavi's spokesman abroad, filmmaker Mohsen Makhbalbaf, alleges that the ministry even contacted Mousavi's camp and said it would begin preparing the population for this victory.

The ministry must have informed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has had a feud with Mousavi for over 30 years, who found this outcome unsupportable. And, apparently, he and other top leaders had been so confident of an Ahmadinejad win that they had made no contingency plans for what to do if he looked as though he would lose.

They therefore sent blanket instructions to the Electoral Commission to falsify the vote counts."

Ahmadinejad won with over 60% of the vote with a record 85% turnout. Ahmadinejad just needed 50% to win or there would have been a runoff. So in order to prevent a Mousavi win or runoff, election officials started falsifying the vote counts. In their zeal to change the events they overdid it giving Ahmadinejad an implausible 61%. With 60% of the population under 30 and the under 30's wanting change, there is no way that Ahmadinejad got 61%.

The people need to take to the streets over this. It looks like they might be doing just that.