Cornyn sez GOP will present own healthcare option

Starting with your very own free GOP blood pressure cuff for the “ownership society”?

No, seriously, John Cornyn says the Senate GOP will present its own healthcare reform option.

State-based solutions? That means Texas/South becomes El Cheapo on this like on other, related issues. CHIPs, anybody? Beyond that, Cornyn’s smoke and mirrors offered no details.

So, let’s call his bluff. Visit his website and send him a webmail demanding specifics of his “program.” I did:

Sen. Cornyn, stop being dishonest.

As a newspaper editor and a blogger, I insist and demand that, if you have a **specific** healthcare reform option to that of Senate Democrats, you present it. A vague claim of “state-based initiatives” without any details is nothing but posturing to a political base that you apparantly fear losing after your tea-party booing last week.

There you go.

Meanwhile, Cornyn offers the best reason yet for MoveOn to keep running its advocacy ads:

“You are beginning to see some fissures and fractures on the Democratic side on the public option, the play-or-pay mandates, and controversial issues like that,” Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a conference call Wednesday with reporters.

Oh, send the National Republican Senatorial Committee $100 and you get your very own free GOP blood pressure cuff for the “ownership society.”