Another edition of arguing with idiots, this time over HCR and a ‘right’ to healthcare.

Why progressives should actually be pleased with the Missouri voters rejection of the individual mandate.

Missouri voters passed Proposition C, seeking to exempt Missourians from the individual mandate of the health insurance reform recently passed, and also the employer mandate. But if Missouri wants to nullify a federal law — what a quaint, pre-civil war notion — they’re going to have to defend it in court.

Fortunately, Missouri has plenty of money in the state coffers to waste it on a frivolous lawsuit.

Or, you know, not.

Challenge Obama’s Individual Mandate!

According to Paul Krugman appears to argue that stiff penalties for non-compliance with the Individual Mandate ought to produce a more successful outcome for this attempt at healthcare reform.

When you you compare the government’s mandate we buy Medicare Health Insurance for years (sometimes decades) before we can enroll in Medicare with the government’s mandate that we buy health insurance per the Health Care Bill … you find … the government does IN DEED have legal precedent to mandate we buy health insurance.

You can read it for yourself.

A short letter to one of my two Senators, who is up for reelection in the fall.

Paul Krugman drones on for us to support the Senate Bill.

Huffington post has a story about PCCC targeting 4 progressive Senators to fillibuster the final health care bill if it does not include a public option. I don’t understand why they believe that this strategy will lead to real results. These Senators folded the first time around, why do you believe they will all of a sudden draw a line in the sand? I am not sure what kind of Christmas turkey that PCCC believes these Senators had over the holiday, but whatever its fortified with I doubt its enough to let them grow that kind of cojones over such a short time span.