Legal Commentary

The White House Channels Ezra Klein

By Big Tent Democrat

Yes, I am picking on Ezra. Here's the famous anonymous White House official:

"I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform." "It's a mystifying thing," he added. "We're forgetting why we are in this."

(Emphasis supplied.) If you wonder if the Obama team is committed to the public option, the answer is an obvious no --"Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue. "It took on a life of its own," he said." Funny, I thought the President said he supported the public option (I never had any illusion that he was married to anything.)

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).