Kennedy would have wanted the public option

America Blog  Aug 29 09

The things folks are missing, though Greg makes a good point, is that if Kennedy were in charge of the health care reform debate, we wouldn't be having to discuss whether we had the votes for the public option - Kennedy would have made sure we had the votes. Compare that to the Democrats currently running the health care reform show. They don't express any public for support for anything, then when - surprise - they don't have the votes for something in particular (like the public option), they cave and justify it by saying they didn't have the votes, when they never tried to get the votes in the first place. Full story...

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