Reid: We're Leaning Toward Talking About The Public Option

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid played coy on health care reform today, saying he hopes to get legislation to CBO "soon," and that he, along with other senators and White House officials, are "leaning toward talking about a public option."

But he did have one somewhat telling thing to say: "I've had a number of meetings in my office, dealing with Democrats and Republicans on the public option aspect of it...when the decision's made to send this on to the CBO, I will have made a decision as to what we're going to do with the public option. It's not done yet."

This confirms to some extent what I reported last week--that though Reid isn't taking members to task publicly for standing in the way of the public option, he's meeting with them behind the scenes. But it also show's that he's not willing to pose the question of the public option as starkly as is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who will ask the CBO to analyze different versions of the public option, and then employ those numbers to convince skeptics in her own party that the public option is the fiscally responsible course.

Reid, by contrast, says he will make the decision about the public option based on negotiations with his members and the White House, but won't use so blunt an object as a CBO analysis to pressure conservative Democrats to get on board.

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Reid is a puѕѕy.

Edited October 20, 2009 by w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r

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Reid is a puѕѕy.

agreed....congress is vaging big time on this heathcare reform...they have the votes in pocket. whats the hold up?

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Reid is a puѕѕy.

agreed....congress is vaging big time on this heathcare reform...they have the votes in pocket. whats the hold up?

They don't actually have the votes in pocket. Dems don't actually have 60. Lieberman is part of that 60 and he's campaigned with the GOP. But Reid decided to keep him in the D caucus. Reid is a puѕѕy.

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Reid is a puѕѕy.

agreed....congress is vaging big time on this heathcare reform...they have the votes in pocket. whats the hold up?

They don't actually have the votes in pocket. Dems don't actually have 60. Lieberman is part of that 60 and he's campaigned with the GOP. But Reid decided to keep him in the D caucus. Reid is a puѕѕy.

They have snowe so they still have 60.

Bunch of pansies... To afraid of the repercussions.

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Snowe is not on board with the Public Option.

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Reid is a puѕѕy.

agreed....congress is vaging big time on this heathcare reform...they have the votes in pocket. whats the hold up?

They don't actually have the votes in pocket. Dems don't actually have 60. Lieberman is part of that 60 and he's campaigned with the GOP. But Reid decided to keep him in the D caucus. Reid is a puѕѕy.

so the reconciliation threat was a big queef?

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Reconciliation was always very unlikely. It would have to go through a committee of which Conrad is in charge and Conrad is an insurance company ####### just like Baucus. The SFC bill has a mandate to buy with no government option and weak subsidies... sorry, but that isn't reform that's the bill of an insurance company #######.

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"Leaning toward talking"? Gee, that's reassuring.

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The public option will save money? What government program has ever saved money or come in under budget?

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The public option will save money? What government program has ever saved money or come in under budget?

and better yet, who's money? it sure does not seem to be mine.

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The public option will save money?

The private health insurance industry seems to think so. They don't feel they can compete with a public option and still rip the living hell out of us. If the pimps of the system are opposed to it, then I'm most certainly in favor.