Friday night, Rachel Maddow hosted FireDogLake founder Jane Hamsher to discuss FDL Action PAC's efforts in Arkansas to hold Blanche Lincoln and Blue Doggie Mike Ross accountable to their constituents who want Public Option as part of health care reform.

Well, that didn't take long. The same day that Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid announced that they "would support any provision that increases competition and accessibility for health insurance - whether or not it is the public option favored by most Democrats" the chief lobbyist for UnitedHealth, Steve Elmendorf, sent an email blast inviting people to a $5,000/PAC or $2400/individual fundraiser in his home for Nancy Pelosi.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters makes clear she wishes the President had gone further last night in endorsing the public option. She re-iterates that Obama wants to hear other, better ideas if anyone has any, but does not think there are better ideas than Public Option

Time to fight for what you were elected by the American people to accomplish, President Obama. Comprehensive, universal health care with a robust public option, no games, no triggers, no co-ops, no silliness.

Does anyone think Bill Clinton had any intention of addressing Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act during his keynote speech in Pittsburgh at Netroots Nation 2009? I don't. Congratulations to non-heckler progressive gay activist and blogger Lane Hudson, who put the former President on the spot -- and then got blamed for not having gotten enough support in Congress for lifting the gay ban.

Two GOP Congresscritters -- one from Illinois and one from Utah -- are conducting online polls on their House of Representatives websites right now, asking your views on health care reform. Why not vote right now?

189,046 Wyomingites voted for Mike Enzi in November 2008, I learned from Dday. This is the guy who thinks the Finance Committee "compromise" he actually hasn't agreed to should go directly to President Obama for his signature with no modification by the rest of our nationally elected legislature. He will only support the Baucus "compromise" if no changes are made to it.

News that Senator Max Baucus' Finance Committee deal on health care excluded a public option sent health insurance stocks soaring on Tuesday. Executives who have poured money into the campaign coffers of Blue Dogs, Max Baucus, Chuck Grassley, Kent Conrad, Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins as well as their PACs likely made all their money back just in the one day rise in stock prices after the leak.

When Barack Obama says that the health care debate isn't about him, it's about the American people, he's also cleverly letting the Blue Dogs who might join up with the GOP to "break" him know that there's a cost to them of a Democratic Presidency broken on the shoals of health care reform: their seats, and maybe even their majority in 2010.