FRAME: When talking about using a "trigger" on health care reform...

[zulchzulu]

When someone says that a "trigger" is a good idea to appease the Republicans and Blue Dogs, simply say:

"You can have a gun with a trigger that shoots nothing but blanks."

Or...

"What good is a trigger if the gun doesn't have any bullets."

[Autumn]

1. Woops I did it again

good ideas. Thanks.
:thumbsup:

[sui generis]

2. a trigger implies that the public option won't come to be unless

some absurd thing happens, like the private option wasn't making anyone rich or something turrible.

Why don't we just cut to the chase instead of fiddling with triggers. It ain't gonna work. Making private insurers richer for three or four years before we exercise a "trigger" is not an option; they'll have even more money to lobby against executing "the trigger".

Have a public option or STFU about all the fancy dancin' on the way to a policy failure.