A Special Special Comment

Keith Olbermann gets to the smallest and most important unit concerned with healthcare in this country: the people.

'Becklash'

Keith Olbermann's 'Becklash' segment from Friday's Countdown.

'Bipartisanship-Shmipartisanship'

While Obama is urging Congress Democrats to work with Republicans on the healthcare bill, Vermont's Bernie Sanders says the most sensible things about the healthcare bill: Forget bipartisanship! Do something good and do it right!

On a closely related note, Keith Olbermann addresses the 'euthanasia' and 'death panel' myths, as well as the right-wing hate- and fear-mongering rhetoric in a special comment below.

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Healthcare

Last night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann had a special comment on what Olbermann termed as 'legislators for sale'—those who pose resistance to any plans for a public health insurance option, Democrats and Republicans alike—relating their resistance to the amount of money they have received in donations from health insurance, drug companies, etc..

I posted a chart a few days ago on the health sector's contributions to legislators, which showed that they ebb and flow depending on the majority in Congress. Olbermann goes so far as to name congressmen and congresswomen who, as he puts it himself, 'have sold their soul.'

I believe I'd say the same if I believed in a soul.