These are all amazingly creative. Hurray for all the submissions!

Jane, did you know you were officially royalty?

If the WaPo says so, it must be true. *g*

Now you can use the royal “we” without upsetting the wingnut wordsmiths.

And I’m sure you’ll use it with your usual aplomb. *g*

Hello Jane and firepups.

Seems all eyes are on Blanche Lincoln and how she will vote. I’m sure someone has pointed this out, but from her website:

Health care reform must build upon what works and improve inefficiencies. Individuals should be able to choose from a range of quality health insurance plans. Options should include private plans as well as a quality, affordable public plan or non-profit plan that can accomplish the same goals of a public plan.

emphasis added.

They all have aspects about them that I like, and some that I don’t.

I love the map, except that it’s heart is in the DC area, and we know that cannot be true. Unless, of course, they actually pass a decent bill, and even then it would be more about incumbency than about “heart.”

I’m probably going to have to vote for the tree, even though I think it’s least likely to win. It has such wonderful symbolism, compared to the others, which pay too much homage to DC, the capitol, etc., etc.

The symbolism of the heart in DC is a bit off-putting, I agree. But the merits really outweigh that. It explicitly connects freedom to access to health care, which is a buried truth. The clean design has a great retro civics-lesson-poster look.

How come there was not one of Glenn Beck and the insurance industry slicing and dicing the lives of children for even bigger wads of cash?

That was mine by the way.

And it joins red and blue working in one system. Idealistic, I know, but something that would make us healthier…

I voted for the heart in DC, too. It tells the story very well. Might even have been better if instead of a heart the artist had used a dollar sign.

Actually it’s a nice way of reminding people that it’s the gummint that Glenn Beck (and Lee Atwater before him) want us to HATE HATE HATE that is the primary expressor of our will as a nation. We are our government, even if we refuse to admit it — refusal to participate is itself a choice.

If we see ourselves as totally separate from DC, it makes it harder for us to make changes in how it runs.

NAh, the heart is perfect. It’s the nation as living being, remember. And the heart’s location in DC is accurate, since that’s where our efforts need to be focused.

Okay, okay… if the heart wins, I will not complain, since I like (the idea of) that one graphically. However, I had to vote for the one that touched me more symbolically. ;~)

If our heart really is in DC, then it needs some kind of significant intervention, metaphysically speaking. Maybe some acupuncture?

Dan, I do agree with you about the retro civics lesson. Maybe, if it wins, it will help to “revive” civics as a subject in school.

I’m with you. The teabaggers will deride the D.C. part, but I thought that was the core of liberal/progressive belief; that government should promote the general welfare or common good. The artwork is an inspired depiction of that as well as the criticality of the issue.

We’re voting for art. It’s a personal choice, the way I see it. Nothing inherently wrong or right about any of it.
Sheesh, some days pups will argue about anything and find ways to try to point out what’s right about what they see or feel.
Hey, it’s Friday. A good thing.

PS, everyone’s a critic. *g*
PS I happened to vote for the Tree. It moved to me, man.

Looks to me like I’m in the right ventricle and most all of eastern PA is in the right auricle. Left ventricle seems out at sea.

Yep, I better location to do the job would be to put it at St. Louis.

But that’s a minor nit. The overall impact of the artwork is good.

Is there a place where we can get a print of this?

she is a saint
SAINT JANE