If We Don't Get The Public Option....

It will be more the House and Senates Fault and not President Obama.

That may change Wednesday, if the President endorses anything less than a true, untriggered, public option. It would definitely change if they send him a shit bill and he signs it. At that point, it's his failure.

...but there are a hell of a lot more Congresscritters fucking it up.

THEY HAVE ALL SUCKED

yes.

The president, Michael Douglas, claims he doesn't have the votes for a critical environmental bill. The Annette Bening character responds with, "How do you know until you put the full weight of the presidency behind it?"

This is what Obama needs to do this week - put the full weight of the presidency behind a robust public option.

Will he?

and he should say directly why even some in his own party will be tempted to oppose a public option--because they care more about getting money now and a job later from insurance companies and pharma than they do about serving the people who they were elected to represent.

Enought fault to go around.

If we had a press that wasn't dominated by the same money interests that don't want single payer or even a public option, it would be tough for Obama to defend his "strategery."

But given that the media will repeat ad nauseum any right wing talking point uncritically, no matter how baseless or defamatory, I could see why Obama might let them shoot their load before he plays his cards.

After they have already made their charges of socialist and the like, it will be tough to repeat them without sounding like yesterday's news.

My vote is for Raul Grijalva and Lynn Woolsey. :thumbsup:

Obama hasn't pushed it hard enough. Congress and the Senate are spineless.

I sent my first donation only a couple of weeks ago. Other liberals I know personally are only now beginning to take notice. The progressive movement was late to the party.

They all need to get their act together & pass healthcare reform with a universal public option for Obama to sign.

The buck stops right there.

By definition, a free world has no leader.

He is the one that put Single Payer off the table in the first place. The public option was the compromise on not even getting a hearing on Single Payer.

people who voted for them last time need them to vote are the problem.

The House could easily pass a public option and of course Obama would sign it.

The President has always said that he favors a public option, and reconciliation is an option, but there's something else. We may know in a few years...

even send a bill out of committee. It doesn't matter if there is a bill passed... with or without a public option. The "fault" in this is not assignable, for blame, as you have predicated. Neither total or in part. This is entirely Obama's boxing match!

The ONLY thing that matters is whether anyone will stand up and fight for the citizens of this country. And Congress, a mob of bought and paid for corporate whore-mongers, will claim to be "trying their best to do what is right", which will be exactly what their vested interests and corporate paymasters tell them it is.

President Obama has allowed himself to be put in the unenviable position, largely by the media-driven GOP/corporate smear campaign, of putting up or shutting up.

But if Obama hits the canvas, bloodied and beaten, after waging an Ali-esque battle (rope-a-dope, or no) for the people of this country, I will renew my own war and fight with him in the next rounds and the next bouts. But, on the other hand, if Obama tries to finesse this, waffles on it, or flat-out takes a dive for the Corpocracy, I am forever quits with him. After all, it will be his decision to make and his alone.

We will see when he addresses Congress whether he has chosen to fight for us or whether he will fake it. It won't take any Faux News analysts to tell all of us what Obama chooses. We will, for better or worse, see it ourselves. And he will deserve either cheers or jeers. Nothing in between.

Then there will be no more questions left to ask. Except, perhaps, if things go badly, "Which way to the offices of the Progressive (or Socialist) Party?"

... Because he started the negotiation from a place of weakness.

Thanks to their archaic rules. That said Obama needs to roll up his sleeves and start "talking" to the blue dogs in both houses.

Send it back, get the public option.

Anything less is an insurance scam that shouldn't pass.