Today, I wrote a letter to our good friends at MoveOn.org. In a recent television ad starring actress Heather Graham, they state, "Competition is as American as applie pie." Check it out. It's a very well done, slick advertisement. It's really amazing that they were able to put this together with a budget only ten times as large as we corporate fat-cats.



Of course, their method of providing "competition" is by creating a government-run insurance company, rather than allowing hundreds of existing companies to compete with one another across state lines.

But why stop short of a "public option" in health care alone if it would do such a killer job of whipping the health insurance industry into shape? Why not a public option in everything? Let's have a government-run soda company! Let's have a government-run food company! Let's have a government-run clothing company! Think of the competition we can provide with a company as big as the federal government! Exclamation points!!!1one!11

I implored MoveOn to support a public option in everything for consistency's sake. Let's see if they take me up on my offer.