Kucinich Hits Back At Gibbs: You've Read Liberals Wrong

==The WhiteHouse finally made official what we've known for a long time: PresidentObama is against the PublicOption. How do we know this? Because Obama, for the first time ever, released his own official healthcare reform proposal — and it doesn't contain a PublicOption.



You can’t claim to support an idea if you're unwilling to make it part of your own proposal. Since the package is designed to pass using reconciliation, the fact that JoeLieberman, BlancheLincoln, & BenNelson are against the PublicOption is irrelevant. The PublicOption already passed the House, & SenatorTomHarkin said a PublicOption had the support of a majority of senators, so there's no reason it cannot be passed through budget reconciliation.



JoeLieberman may have played the part of the antiPublicOption boogeyman before, but now Obama's stepping up to prevent the PO from coming to fruition.



Just to be clear, you can’t “support” something if you make no effort to see that it passes. If you do things that directly harm its chances of becoming law, like not include it in your healthcare proposal, then you're against it. But don’t worry, even as Obama takes steps to make sure that people don’t have an alternative to the private insurance companies that helped ruin our healthcare system, he did take steps to make sure you face an even bigger IRS penalty if you refuse to buy the poorly regulated product from the private insurance companies.==



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