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

Dems haven't abandoned the public option. Dems are going to reintroduce the public option as a debt reduction bill.

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Political theater.



The week before & the week after the healthcare bill (or, more accurately, 'The Insurance & Pharmaceutical Industries Windfall Act') passed in the Senate was the one & only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.



A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconciliation anyway, & there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.



Obama nixxed it.



The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote & "There's no time!"



After the (allegedly) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse & stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it going back to the House anyway. It was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"



http://www.huf fingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/byrd-rule-sends-health-care-back-to-house_n_512609.html



There will never be a public option as long as Obama is in office. Or as long as the DLC controls the Democratic Party. Or another 25 years. At least.
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