JOHANNS: If a woman wants her health insurance plan to provide elective abortion services, she does have the choice to purchase a health insurance plan that provides that on the exchange -- she just has to pay for it with her own money. Am I correct in that interpretation, or have I misunderstood?

HATCH: That's correct.

Reid has the 51 vote majority he needs. He needs to wrest control of the Senate from the handful of corporatists trying to deliver health care reform to Blue Cross and PhRMA. If he won't, it won't be Ben Nelson or Mary Landrieu or Chuck Schumer who will pay the price. There's nobody to lay the blame on.

It's Harry Reid's fault. And Mr. 38% JAR will have to wear it.

Harry Reid's kabuki won't work. If the public option can't get through the Senate, he and Blanche are going to wear it.

Blanche Lincoln David McDonald has been in pain for two weeks because didn't have the money to get it treated.

Eve Gittelson is in Little Rock covering the Olbermann free clinics today.

The Blue Dogs have been bellyaching about having to take a "tough vote" on immigration reform in advance of the 2010 election. Looks like they have a friend in the White House.

Senate convening CSPAN 2.

It's time we stop bailing out Wall Street and start investing in Main Street. But we need your support to help make that happen.

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According to the Huffington Post, "Key to winning Democratic support was a letter posted early Thursday from labor leaders and progressive economists" which was "organized by the liberal blog Firedoglake...Grayson was able to show Democratic colleagues that the liberal base was behind them." During the committee debate, Grayson quoted from the letter.

Keith Olbermann’s free health care clinics come to Arkansas this weekend, thanks to the efforts of Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter. Halter was on Countdown last night talking about the clinics with Lawrence O’Donnell.