What would that be?
The Village keeps telling us the private word is that the public option is off the table.
The One says both yes and no.
...“I just want to figure out what works,” Mr. Obama said in March at a White House forum. If he could drive down health costs and expand coverage “entirely through the market,” he said, “I’d be happy to do it that way.” And “if there was a way of doing it that involved more government regulation and involvement, I’m happy to do it that way, as well,” he added...
Then there's the Happy talk.
All this obfuscation despite all those good words about how the One really, really wants a public health insurance option. They're kind of like all those good words about ending the war in Iraq, one supposes. They're kind of like the standard Bu$hCo talk about No Child Left Behind and Clean Air and protecting the environment. Kind of like the Jobless Recovery that's simply set the stage for a bigger bubble pop and shakedown than what's happened over the last year.
Frank Rich detects a pattern:
...After a good couple of years of living with the guy, we know the drill that defines his leadership, for better and worse. When trouble lurks, No Drama Obama stays calm as everyone around him goes ballistic. Then he waits — and waits — for that superdramatic moment when he can ride to his own rescue with what the press reliably hypes as The Do-or-Die Speech of His Career. Cable networks slap a countdown clock on the corner of the screen and pump up the suspense. Finally, Mighty Obama steps up to the plate and, lo and behold, confounds all the doubting bloviators yet again by (as they are wont to say) hitting it out of the park...
Of course, all the confusion the Politician-in-Chief engenders plays right into the hands of the Right. Thus the call of Liar about something the One pretty concretely isn't going for, while the sound of crickets in the night about the bets he's really hedging.
Along with the Right and the owners of both parties, too.
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