So there it is. October 13 was lucky for some. If you like the Debt Cartel; you gotta love the Wealth-care Protection Racket. The Bloods and Crips are wimps compared to private insurers. They started out by buying influence with both top dogs. Then they handed out millions in legal bribes to a handful of small state legislators. Having thus ensured that any actual opposition was kept off the block, the insurers paid people who paid people to pay propaganda thugs to terrify the neighborhood. Brought to the point that that public were living in fear and protesting in the streets on behalf of the profit-gougers, the racket pulled back, and let its dollars do the talking. Ta-da. All those legislators they fed and watered in the spring, burst forth in fall with a crop of proposals that actually push 45 million new customers their way. It's time to harvest. Now Roll Call reports that: "After months of holding its fire, the insurance industry is moving to aggressively push back against health care legislation moving forward in the Senate." It's hard to know whether to cry or laugh. The for-profit insurers have all but killed the public option in health care. That's sad. What's worse is they seem absolutely to have killed our democracy. Less