My, How Dickensian You Are Looking Tonight, Mr. Cantor!

Alastair Sim? Let me save everyone some googling. Alastair Sim "was a Scottish character actor... best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge"

Oh no, don't tell me you hadn't heard of Alastair Sim before?

I FEEL SOOOO OLLLLDDDD!

Sorry, Kat.

I was born in the 60's and I hadn't heard of Alistair Sim either.

But it was charmless nonetheless.

Maybe not charming and he didn't sweep her off her feet, but he gave her some damn good advice and you have to wonder why she hadn't investigated the options he mentions beforehand. Was she sitting on her butt while her relative had these tumors?

Personal responsibility lady, get out and look. Why did you wait for this meeting?

Big thumbs up to Mr. Cantor for giving good advice to the lady about what she could do. Sorry if he didn't wine and dine her and give her roses while giving her a well thoughtout response.

What a ridiculous post, you've outdone yourself Kathy.

I FEEL SOOOO OLLLLDDDD!

Your not old Kathy, your just 25 with lots of years of experience.

Meanwhile in real news:

Pelosi backs away from deal with Blue Dogs
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/59839-pelosi-...

Speaker Pelosi is backing away from a deal she cut with centrists to advance health reform, said a source familiar with talks.

Pelosi’s decision to move away from the agreement that was made with a group of Blue Dogs to get the bill out of committee would steer the healthcare legislation back to the left as she prepares for a floor vote.

Pelosi is planning to include a government-run public option in the House version of the healthcare bill. She wants to model it on Medicare, with providers getting reimbursed on a scale pegged to Medicare rates

Pelosi once again blocking moderate healthcare reform. She can't even keep her deals with her own party, LOL.

"Pelosi once again blocking moderate healthcare reform."

Look at the kind of -- people -- she feels she must please.

DLS and Leonidas,
Your so called "moderate" health care reform is nothing but a gift to the odious health insurance industry (mandates with no meaningful check on the quality of insurance we're required to buy). We'd be better off with the more "extreme" reform, be it a rightwing system like Singapore, or a leftwing system like France.

Oh I don't like the propossal either as it stands, but that doesn't change the fact that Pelosi can't get along with democratic moderates, and backs out of deals with them. She paints the GOP as the obstacle but this is just another indicator that that obstacle is Nancy Pelosi and her disciples.

Now that is seriously charming. :-)

"Your so called 'moderate' health care reform is nothing but a gift to the odious health insurance industry"

Oops. That overrunning temper of yours is overrunning again.

I've advocated real reform (community rating, uniform benefit packages, eliminating exclusions for pre-existing conditions and recissionary practices, etc.), which is more than can be said for the Dimmies.

All you need to complete your look, Kathy, the Pink Panther, is the Hat [tm]. What hat? Either a pink Liza Minelli "Cabaret" hat or better, a pink or red beret like that of your fellow lefties:


http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0709/hug...

http://www.thechestore.com/proddetail.php?prod=...


(For you, pink is best. Matches the top in your photo.)

So, where's the Hat [tm]?

[chuckle]

http://www.fbuch.com/thehat.htm

"We'd be better off with the more 'extreme' reform"

I say the public option is not dead yet, and don't neglect the opportunity to convert the co-ops into the same thing in all but name. The Baucus bill failed more badly than I believe anyone guessed, and the result is likely a shift back to the left (where the House is in a stronger bargaining position).