Fantasy, meet Reality

Several months ago, the socialists at MoveOn.org released an ad that trumpeted the benefits of the so-called Public Option for health care. The ad, entitled "Track Meet" shows a bunch of fat cat insurance executives standing on a running track doing what rich people often do, such as pouring champagne all over themselves and stuffing an entire sandwich in their mouth - isn't that what you see rich people often doing? /sarc.

Than along comes the angelic actress Heather Graham, representing the public option who provides the competition that prompts the insurance fat cats to put down their sandwiches and change their ways in order to keep up with Heather. If my description of the ad doesn't do it for you, watch it for yourself:



I have three words for this ad: male bovine excrement.

Here is another ad - this one from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest - that also uses a sports analogy and shows how the "competition" of a "public option" would really play out:



Always remember, only government has the guns to make you do something they want you to do. Private industry does not. The MoveOn ad would be more accurate if Heather Graham was whacking the other runners with a baseball bat as they all run down the track.

Good Day to You, Sir