Celebrate Health Care Summit Eve with a Guide to Tomorrow’s Coverage

Now that the House Republicans have agreed not to boycott the event, tomorrow Obama and his friends (and enemies!) will gather for a six-hour health care summit. This sort of thing is CSPAN 3’s bread and butter—the Washington Post says the channel will broadcast tomorrow’s events “gavel to gavel.” Adorable. This means that we who get our news from the Internet can expect live coverage aplenty. If you do not already have a preferred health care reform blog of choice, consult the following guide (only after speaking with your doctor) to find out which site’s summit coverage is right for you.

• Watch out for metaphors!: “Negotiating the meeting's logistics likely made My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like an elementary school field trip.”The Washington Post’sEzra Klein

• Sneak-peek: “As Democrats came to realize that they couldn’t get Republican votes for the bill by adding policies that Republican senators supported, they began trimming their ambitions in order to keep their caucus together.”

• Blockquoting-to-editorializing ratio: Klein is big on blockquoting analysis from other sites and agreeing or disagreeing in a lucid, concise fashion. People find him funny; occasionally, he is, kinda. (“Megan [McArdle] is a libertarian. That's, like, her journey, man.”)

• Food for thought: “I made these sesame, soy and herb-roasted mushrooms last night. They were terrific.”

• Sneak-peek: “A lot of us have been arguing, for a while, that the Democratic health care reform plan is already bipartisan, in the sense that it incorporates Republican ideas and closely resembles plans prominent Republicans have endorsed in the past.”

• Blockquoting-to-editorializing ratio: Low; expect lots of helpful (left-leaning) contextualization. The Treatment is less wonky than TNR’s other speciality blogs.

• Sneak-peek: “Well hopefully [the health care reform summit] works. [Obama] can offer Republicans their precious tort reform in the bill, and then ask in return that some of them vote for it, and when they say ‘no,’ the American people will realize that
the Democrats can’t get anything done. Meghan McCain/Crib-Notes ‘12!”