It didn’t help that Obama and Democratic leaders blew off single-payer as if the idea didn’t even exist. But make no mistake. By switching our support from single payer to the public option, we turned the public option into some leftist idea in the minds of many, and moderates and Blue Dogs had nowhere to go but to the right, away from the formerly moderate compromise.

Learn to make no compromises, progressives! We’re the only force capable of moving the Overton window to the left!

That must have been left over from his reelection campaign a couple weeks earlier — either that or the transition team indoctrinization program hadn’t gotten to him yet ;/

Enzi pops up like a jack-in-the box clown and says– ‘Hey! Don’t count me out. I still wants to negotiate.’ This after bragging last week at a town hall in Wyoming that he was responsible for the delay in a getting a bill out of his committee.

Enzi had nothing to do with the timetable. It’s a large important reform and it’s important for the public to have their say, so Congress can learn their concerns and inform them and get a sense of how the public feels about parts of the reform.

We know the public supports it and we know some of them are ill-informed despite lots of explanations and we know the loony-tunes Right will say and do absolutely anything to oppose Obama.

The reform should go through, though it may require the Dems pass the public option part all by themselves.

Isn’t it amazing how easy it is for senators to support reform until it actually gets going and they realize they’re going to have to vote on it? Heh.

Yeah, well, I do not know why progressives to not advocate that Medicare buy-in for 55 and olders. …

Yeah, that would be a good place to start, and then lower the age of eligibility every year.

Bob in AZ