Welcome to the best of the left podcast with clips today from the Young Turks, Real

Time with Bill Maher, Countdown in PR and the Daily Show.

Yesterday I called for the public option to be non-negotiable, to be part of the health

care plan. I went on and on about it for about 10, 15 minutes. I said, we must have it.

And guess who apparently was listening? It's not a big deal, Barack Obama. Obviously,

he was probably in the chat room, you know how he rose. And he came out today and gave

a little speech in Wisconsin, doing some public rallies. This is where he really

applies the pressure of the Congressman of Senators on both sides of the aisle when he

reaches out to the American people and speaks directly to them. And he said, we must have

the public option as part of health care reform. Hey, look at that. That's excellent.

All right. Now we're having fun. So I'm glad that President Obama is watching the Young

Turks in Greece. Apparently not everybody does though. You know what I'm going to go to

first? I'm going to go to clip number five here. It's Chuck Grassley's a Republican from

Iowa. And he's going to be talking to Andrea Mitchell about that public option. What

he says, not really true, but you'll be able to tell from even what he says because it

doesn't make any sense. But I'll come back and explain it just for fun. Here we go.

Right now the Republicans on finance, all the Republicans, except for Olympia Snow,

have come out against the public option. What is your objection to the public option?

My objection to the public option is based upon the Lewin Think Tank study that says 190

million people will opt out of private health insurance. When you only have 50 million

left, premiums are going to go way up. And then the president's promise during the campaign

that if you want to keep your existing health insurance, you ought to be able to keep it

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