Reform without all the mess

All the messy reform, that is.

If there's no public option, the option Roy Blunt (R-Status Quo) calls "a non-starter," there's no sense wasting time on a health care bill. Once again, the Republicans are the party of no.

Note to CNN: Blunt is not "heading up health care efforts in the House." He's a Republican in the house which has no filibuster. He doesn't have a leadership role that matters.

Update (6/13): Robert Reich hits this topic in Salon.

Who pays?

House Republicans say, "Our financier buddies screwed up the economy, and we'll bail them out, but you little people can go screw. See, equality!"