Via Jim Geraghty on Twitter: “Politico’s Jim Vandehei on CNN: ‘There’s not going to be a public option in this bill.’ Says White House tells him OTR they know it.” Blue Dog Mike Ross of Arkansas comes out against a public option, in a move that may embolden other Blue Dogs:
“I have been skeptical about the public health insurance option from the beginning and used August to get feedback from you, my constituents,” he wrote in a statement his office released publicly. “An overwhelming number of you oppose a government-run health insurance option, and it is your feedback that has led me to oppose the public option as well.”
It has come to this. Lieberman dubs the cherished liberal “public” option a “distraction,” using the Obama campaign’s own language of opponent marginalization to urge him to marginalize Pelosi and the Progressive Caucus:
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