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AP: Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name
Congressghoul Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.”
Now she just needs to rebrand the “private option” (i.e. insurance companies). She should probably get some ideas from Alan Grayson, but in the meantime, here’s a few to consider:
- Death Merchants
- Profit-Crazy Murdermen
- Evil Option
Will Ferrell still hard at work finding ways to alienate and bore people who used to think he was funny
There is plenty of leftist political satire that I can begrudgingly enjoy, but I was pretty surprised at how not-funny this mock “Protect Insurance Companies” PSA ad is:
Being a big fan of “The State” and “Freaks and Geeks,” it took me a little longer to hate this video than say, the latest release from those vapid celebrities in the Film Actors Guild:
UPDATE: More from Hot Air:
No one who pocketed $20 million for any movie, let alone Bewitched and Talladega Nights, has any room to talk about overpaid execs.




