Legal Commentary

Nate Silver: No Public Option Would Be On Obama

By Big Tent Democrat

Nate Silver:

[I]f the only two choices were to pass a bill with a public option and nothing at all, and everyone knew these were the only two choices, I believe at least some Blue Dogs would cave and the bill would stand a decent shot at passing. . . . The reason that I wrote earlier this week that a bill with a public option was "probably" dead is because I've long believed that leadership from the White House might make the difference between a bill with a public option just barely passing and it just barely failing to do so. . . . [T]he situation could also be a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy: the public option might have passed, if only the White House had been willing to agitate for it -- but since they weren't willing to do so, it couldn't . . .

(Emphasis supplied.) Maybe Ezra and Co. will pick up on this.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).