On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Washington Post - August 19, 2009
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081803655_pf.html
> >
>
> Debate's Path Caught Obama by Surprise
> Public Option Wasn't Intended as Major Focus
>
>
> President Obama's advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were
> unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of a
> proposed public health insurance program....
Duh. "Public Option" was never anything more than sugar-coating for Insurance-Corporation-dominated "Reform," to allow "progressive" Dumbocrats representing left-wing constituencies to pretend that the "Reform" would be a big step toward real national health insurance. The Obamists were sure that the pwogs would roll over on this like they do on everything else. Now the Repugnicons have forced them to admit the fraud, and the pwogs are howling "give us back our fig leaf!"
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos