Several major developments on the Hill. One is the Tri Caucus, lead by Rep Grijalva, is pushing to make the public option viable. As many of you know, the CBO has scored the Blue Dog's public option as costing more in premiums than private ones. Why? Adverse risk-sick people dumped into the plan driving up costs. Major risk adjustment or a robust PO will be needed so that the public option can be you know the AFFORDABLE ONE WE WERE  PROMISED.

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Courtesy of Marc Ambinder:

Fun With Local TV News Stations: Obama-Bayh Stickers?

22 Aug 2008 05:45 pm
I doubt the following story.... the bumper sticker is just too ugly to be official.

From KMBC in Lexena:

   After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa.KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that the company, which specializes in political literature, has been printing Obama-Bayh material. That's Bayh as in U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana. Word leaked out about the material as it was being printed up by Gill Studios of Lenexa. The Obama campaign had said it would make the announcement by text message on Friday.

http://www.kmbc.com/politics/17267009/de tail.html

Don't take this too seriously gang....I think it's going to be Biden.

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With a tip towards Jeralyn at talkleft.com, she's reporting that Bayh's D.C. baseball team has cancelled its game for tomorrow night.  As we all know by now, Bayh has an event scheduled with Obama on Wednesday.  What does this mean?

I think the key person to look for in this instance is not Bayh or Obama; it's HRC.  Where will she be on Wednesday?  You would think that if Obama is going to announce his veep and it is one of her former supporters, that she would be present at the announcement.  So far, her schedule indicates that she will either be campaigining with Obama or flying solo in Nevada on Friday.  Some bloggers, specifically puma, have asserted that Obama will be campaigning with her in Ohio this week but Obama is in Ohio tomorrow and she was in Philadelphia today.  Puma, what's your source for this Obama-HRC campaigning in Ohio claim?

Anyway, I think Bayh is an uninspiring choice and I'll leave it to William Cooper to make the case regarding Bayh's active cheerleading, rather than passive voting, for the Iraq War.  I just had to laugh when the guy claimed that he had so much in common with Obama two months after almost asserting that Obama had fewer testicles than HRC (so is he saying that he too has fewer testicles than HRC?).  

But whatever, if Bayh can deliver Indiana for Obama, then that's gravy.  I cannot say that I wouldn't have been as opportunistic.

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Thanks to QTG's comment in another thread, I just typed in the following web addresses:

www.obamakaine08.com

www.obamasibelius08.com

www.obamaclinton08.com

www.obamabayh08.com

. . . and sure enough, only one of them links directly to the Democratic Party's website.

Meaningful?  Meaningless?  Discuss.

(If it's true, color me disappointed.)

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Sebelius, Kaine, or Bayh

Those are the three names that are being settled upon as CW chatter.

bayh is clearly the most 'political' choice, a Washington Senator, but from a state that Obama could win.

Sebelius and Kaine are the ones whom backed Obama, and are more of a companion/outsider choice.

Vote for your choice, in the extended. I'd hope he goes with Kaine, who could help in VA, out of these three.

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