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

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill (or, more accurately, 'The Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industries Windfall Act') passed in the Senate was the one and 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), and 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, feeble, was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote, and "There's no time!"



After the (allegedly) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse and stood down, a couple of problems were discovered with the bill which required it going back to the House anyway. And it was all done in the de@d of night, before anyone like me could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway (so your past excuse for not including a public option is moot), how about putting 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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