Obama refuses to speak up on behalf of Medicare-For-All

[brentspeak]

More to the point, he refuses to speak up about anything concerning the public option at all, only that he's, uh, for it. Whatever it's supposed to be.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/489881/pelosi_s_not_so_robust_public_option

Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Lynn Woolsey, D-California, said she and her allies would continue to battle to muscle-up the public option.

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Woolsey and other progressive Democrats are set to meet with President Obama Thursday.

"He needs to hear from us that he needs to support the public option,'' Woolsey told the Los Angeles Times. "He's not saying it loud enough. We want to make sure he lets the Senate know he wants a public option in the bill."

The focus on Obama is appropriate. He has the authority, as a man with a bully pulpit and a veto pen, to tell Pelosi that a soft public option is insufficient. At the same time, he can and should be more involved in challenging the absurd proposals -- advanced by conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans -- for "opt-outs" and "triggers," which threaten to weaken the public option to the point of meaninglessness.

[HereSince1628]

1. I suppose it won't help anymore to say that he

is playing chess.

I know it doesn't do me any good to hear that making legislation is messier than making sausage. I make sausage, and ya know what? I actually know how I want it to turn out when I go start making sausage.

This is more like making stone soup.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. If by "help" you mean offering a laugh in trying times, sure.

That chess gag never gets old.

[ej510]

3. I complained for months and then shut up, because duers told me Obama would

come out at the right time and I should be quiet because the public option we want will be there in the end. Well that turned out to be horse shit.

[Peregrine Took]

4. I'm sick of politicians who are, oh. so eloquent and full of grand promises

on the campaign trail but when they get into office they have a whole different view of things.

My dad was right all along - politicians are all the same - a bunch of liars and crooks.