I hope that as progressives continue to push for the Public Option as the essential CORE of health reform, we should also remind the Blue Dogs that if citizens are permittted to enroll in a program similar to medicare right away then this would serve to mobilize voters as early as the November 2010 election cycle.
We should argue that instead of fighting the inclusion of the Public Option, it is in fact the one portion which should be placed on a fast track and made available to potential enrollees by June 2010. These voters would be crucial in these marginal districts and would far out-number those angry right-wingers
In keeping with this, may be the Public Option may be needs to be renamed as the Congressional Insurance Policy and all members of congress and senate be asked to enroll in it and see how they could trash talk it