The CNN Political Ticker reports:

Just hours before White House rival Hillary Clinton unveiled her massive universal health care plan Monday, three hundred miles east of Des Moines, in Chicago, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards was making a dramatic promise of his own: As president, he would cut off health coverage to top government officials until his health care plan is passed into law.

“To show Congress just how serious I am, on the first day of my administration, I will submit legislation that ends health care coverage for the president, all members of Congress, and all senior political appointees in both branches of government on July 20th, 2009 – unless we have passed universal health care reform,” Edwards said in a speech to the Laborers Leadership Convention.

Yeah. I’m sure Congress would jump right on passing that legislation. Maybe he’ll simultaneously introduce legislation to cut Congress’ pay, prohibit pork and stop Congress from meeting with lobbyists. Wait…wait. I’ve got it. I’ve figured out where that makes sense. In the second America.

H/t Hot Air Headlines.