Legal Commentary

Will The Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up

By Big Tent Democrat

Dana Houle appears to argue that the President is irrelevant to the health care debate:

I'm still cautiously optimistic that we're going see a decent bill, quite possibly with a public option, clear the senate, and if it can clear the Senate it will become law.

Apparently, the President is irrelevant to those events. Digby sees it differently:

This health care debate is looking like it's finally going to tell us what our president really believes in. . . . The Republicans have completely taken themselves out of the debate and the only arguments are among Democrats. And that means President Obama's going to have to decide which side he's going to put his weight behind.

Will the President weigh in? I honestly do not know. In any event, the Progressive Block can hold the line and say 'no public option, then no bill.'

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).