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

Meanwhile, David Sirota, a liberal columnist, commentator and radio show host in Colorado, is pushing for action on the public option and is pressuring Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, who is facing a tough primary campaign ahead of a potentially even tougher re-election bid. “While the fact that no single Democratic senator has stepped up to promise to offer this amendment is a sad commentary on the state of politics right now, this is a rare chance to use the pressure of a Democratic primary to force this absolutely critical issue,” Mr. Sirota wrote in an e-mail message Monday to supporters of the public option.



The White House seems to be opposed to making any big changes to the bill, even though Mr. Obama has always expressed support for the public option. Aides to the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said he was working as hard as possible to complete the legislation without any further changes.



Even if 51 Senate Democrats agree to add the public option to the bill, the situation in the House is unsettled. The coalition that approved the legislation on Sunday now includes some fiscally conservative Democrats who opposed the legislation in the fall. And it is unclear, even to liberal supporters of the public option, that they could win the votes.



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