I can't believe that the Washington Post reported this:
"I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform."
"It's a mystifying thing," he added. "We're forgetting why we are in this."
Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue.
"It took on a life of its own," he said.
WTF: two things.
1. Mandating that millions of people who do not buy insurance or can't without a ROBUST public option without government supplements is nothing more than dumping millions if not billions of dollars in the coffers of the insurance companies...they must love this.
2. The Obama administration is "...forgetting why we are in this." NOT the progressive democrats...WE ARE IN THIS FOR REAL REFORM....NOT TO GIVE INSURANCE COMPANIES GREATER ACCESS TO OUR MONEY....without a public option that is what happens....if there is not at least a ROBUST public option...the democrats will NEVER get a vote from this democrat....NEVER.
And we are not the "left of the left..." We are those mothers and fathers of the middle class who have insurance and who are VERY tired of the insurance corporations taking us to the cleaners....I thought we voted for Obama to bring CHANGE...giving the insurance companies more money without a ROBUST public option is NOT CHANGE.
Who ever gave this interview has his or her head up the proverbial backside...that has always been the sine non quo for MOST DEMOCRATS.
Hey, Mr. Obama, listen to Rep. Anthony Weiner and even more importantly, Speakler Pelosi...they are the ones who got you started, who supported you along with us...stop listening to people like GRASSLEY. They will never vote for you no matter what....but not public option, i will not either....