SNL: Tina Fey (playing Sarah Palin) needs to explain health care reform as Al Franken's  Democratic Fairy Godmother.

Maybe I am smoking crack here, but I think turning Tina Fey's Sarah Palin into a Democrat and having her explain health care would be a great way to simplify the message.

Throw in a little Garrison Keillor and Marge from Fargo and you've got it done.

Trust me, this sketch will work   :^)  

Franken did a great job explaining Pre-existing Conditions, Equal Premiums, and no recission at the State Fair. He did it by patiently laying out the points in order and waiting until he got uh huhs from the crowd before moving on to the next ask. It was beautiful, clear and respectful. But, as always happens when people try to get through the Public Option stuff, he got lost in the weeds a little.

So Al needs to go to sleep wondering how he can help Barack Obama write a simplified speech and Sarah Palin, Democrat, needs to come to him in a dream as his Fairy Godmother and lay it out for him.

The key to the Public Option is to point out that the Government, meaning Taxpayers, (wink wink) already pick up 46% of the tab for Health Care. Most of it goes to Medicare, the VA, Schip, etc., which are Government programs and God knows they've got their flaws, but still, "Medicare's a heckuva lot better than kickin' Grandma in the ass with the frozen boot that sometimes I'd like to use on her."

"But here's the thing. Some of that money goes to hospitals to pay for uninsured people who use the emergency room for healthcare, then don't pay the bill. Yup, we the taxpayers are forking out the money to cover their care. Since we already pay it in the form of hospital subsidies n' stuff anyway, shouldn't we be able to hand those folks a health plan and say "Fer CryYieYie, get yourself a doctor and go to a clinic like the rest of us. I mean, we'd be doing ourselves a favor." (This is the old Minnesota "you'd be doing me a favor by takin' the rest of that hot dish" joke. It's also an outreach to the American sense of fair play which is a strong trait.)

"We can save a lot of money by makin' sure everybody's got a health plan--there might even be enough of that 46% left over for a little botox for those of us who have to look good for our jobs. Ok, I lied about the botox, that probably won't be covered."

There are a lot of ways to go with this, but the beautiful thing about having Tina Fey deliver the message as Sarah Palin, Democrat Fairy Godmother is that she can be engaging, make it simple and clear without having to be all pars-ey the way any Politician, including Franken, would have to be.

Anyone know how to get this idea to Franken & Fey on the Labor Day weekend before the presidential speech? Tall order, but what do we have to lose?