Glass half-full observation on health care reform...

Leading Senators & Obama himself have made noises during the past day or two suggesting that they are waffling on the public option in health care & there are some (appropriately) alarmist headlines in Huffington Post & Raw Story. 

I'm okay with the alarmism in the headlines--everybody needs to stay vigilant--but I suspect that the backtracking on the public option is more apparent than real.  I think that perhaps the White House and its allies are trying to ratchet down the some of the violence-prone stupidity coming from the tea bagger types by allowing the public option to go discreetly unmentioned--for the time being. 

Come September, although victory is far from assured. I'm pretty sure the public option  will be on the table.   

R.

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