re: #345 Walter L. Newton

This would be a good time for the President to put in the public option and all the other things the House wanted. This thing is going to happen, so why don’t the Dems take advantage of it and fulfill their promises to the voters?

I’d be shocked if it gets included. They’re threading a needle between the Senate Blue Dogs, Stupak’s House anti-abortion coalition and the more liberal House Dems. Of those groups, the latter seems most desperate to pass a bill, so I’m guessing: no public option, and abortion language that is going to infuriate the base.