When they threw the public option under the bus

When they threw the public option under the bus, they didn't count on a few things.

They they didn't count on the crowd, who refused to stand idly as bystanders and just watch.

And they didn't count on the bus driver, a union driver, who hit the brakes in time.

When they tried to declare the public option dead, they didn't count on the doctors, 70 percent of whom are friends of the public option.

While they were busy counting their campaign contributions from health insurance companies, while they were busy counting votes in committee, they didn't count on us.

But if we want the public option to make it, we need to fight for it. If we want it to survive, to be viable and strong, we have to fight for it. If we want it, weakened as it has been from the beginning, to be able to do any good at all, we need to fight for it. Right now.

We need to make them count our calls, count our letters, count our voices lowered in pleading or raised in anger, and remind them if they want to stay where they are they will need to count on our votes.

For them, it's just politics as usual. For us it is life and death.

thrown under the bus

seems that phrase has been... you get the picture.

I don't know to what you are referring. I have heard the phrase in this context, specifically, which is why I used it.

Too bad, it's just too useful.

The throwing under the bus of thrown under the bus should be thrown under the bus.

Hopefully, for the GOP, it's just death.