Wrong Paul

Paul Bunyan is selling gubmint health care. You may have heard about this or seen the billboards. If not, the Star Tribune editorial board lets you know today:

Legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan’s day job requires heavy lifting and hard work. But the new endeavor in which the mythical woodsman has been enlisted is far more challenging than felling tall timbers with an ax: getting Minnesotans revved up about buying health insurance and using the state’s new MNsure website to do so.

Minnesota is one of 16 states that opted to build a fully state-based health insurance exchange — the online comparison shopping marketplaces that are a cornerstone of the 2010 Affordable Care Act — with the remainder of states relying on the federal government to build or help build theirs. While the exchanges are slated to launch on Oct. 1, Bunyan and his buddy Babe the Blue Ox have already begun their new gig promoting MNsure.

I'm assuming they are using Paul Bunyan because they can't use Paul Wellstone.