Obama - No Position on Public Option to Senators

[placton]

"As President Obama finished his speech to the Democratic caucus in the Capitol's Mansfield Room on Sunday afternoon, Joe Lieberman made his way over to Harry Reid.

The independent who still caucuses with Democrats wanted to point something out to the Majority Leader: Obama didn't mention the public option.

Lieberman was beaming as he left the room and happy to re-point it out when HuffPost asked him what Obama had said about the public health insurance option, perhaps the most contentious issue still facing Democrats as they negotiate their way toward a final health care reform bill.

"Well, it was interesting to me -- of course everybody hears with their own ears -- that he didn't say anything about the public option," said Lieberman. "In other words, when he outlined how far we've come on the bill, he talked about the cost-containment provisions; he talked about the insurance market reforms; and he talked about enabling 30 million more people to get insurance. He said these are historic accomplishments, the most significant social legislation, or whatever you call it, in decades, so don't lose it."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/06/obama-silent-on-public-op_n_381847.html


Joe's happy with Barack - how about you. Just another Obama speech it appears: sound and fury signifying nothing.

[kenny blankenship]

1. check spelling in subject line

below the belt.

[ShortnFiery]

2. ...

:spray: :blush:

[placton]

3. thanks for the catch and one unrecc already

is that you, Rahm? Better to supress the truth?

[ShortnFiery]

5. No diggs on you ...

We all make typos. FWIW, I recommended. :shrug:

[ShortnFiery]

4. I'm saddened that President Obama is NOT promoting "a robust Public Option."

More and more, I'm getting the impression that we elected "a CEO" instead of "a President." :(

[placton]

6. I am past sad, past angry

now on to nausea - this all makes me sick

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Me too

[GCP]

18. I've given up on him

What's the point any more.

[inna]

21. we elected a right-wing pro-corporatist, anti-worker president.

sorry, but that's a pure fact.

[bluestateguy]

7. This report strikes me as unreliable

Anonymous sources and rumors.

And it has a gossipy, tabloidish vibe to it.

[Deja Q]

9. Why elsee is HuffPo given the epithet of "Puffpiece"?

:puffpiece:

[Parker CA]

10. Perfectly said. +1

[cali]

11. I'll say what I said in the other thread with this excerpt

this may or may not be true, but it's a lousy piece and it from Huffypost. I'll wait until I see what my Senators say about this.

[shadesofgray]

12. So then Obama DOESN'T care about keeping insurance companies "honest."

Not that I ever thought he really did.

[rwheeler31]

13. We know where the President stands and where Lieberman

stands. Our anger should be directed at Joe.

[pscot]

19. If you know where the President stands

you know more than I do. Trying to tease meaning out of what President Obama says is sort of like deciphering an oracle from the I-ching.

[Bluebear]

14. 'Lieberman was beaming as he left the room'

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. Jim Beaming.

[bvar22]

16. Smooth Talk.

Chump Change.

[spanone]

17. he's already made his position clear on the public option....spin spin spin

fuck lieberman

[Pirate Smile]

20. Standard Huff Post pushing divisive crap and people here spewing RW talking points.

Reminds me of this post by Nate Silver of 538.com - it really seems to fit the two different groups on DU - the cynical bitterness seems to be eating some people up and the demagoguery is in full swing:



http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/two-progressivisms.html

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

24. So you consider yourself credulous and prone to co-option?

[AzDar]

22. Beyond disappointing if true...

[jwirr]

23. Doesn't Obama see the public option as a cost containment factor?

Maybe Joe is forgetting that? However, if so Obama should have made it clearer.