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Till at least after the 210 elections. This was the republican plan all along on the health care issue, keep anything from happening this year, and then no democrat will touch it after December for fear of losing their bid for re-election! Republicans will use it to get votes by saying the democrats had nothing, otherwise they would have passed it. They will accuse democrats of being weak, and come up with some BS about "their" plan, which once the elections are over will be the same as all their other plans, gone and forgotten!
I wish the president would get a whole lot tougher, and start telling those in congress on the democrat side who are not supporting him on this, that if he goes down, so will they! Change has to happen from the top down, and when it's obvious that the republicans aren't going to help, tell them simply we will do it with or without you, makes no difference. Tell the democrats who are holding things up that he will be supporting a challenger in the primaries, and see what happens! He can also tell those democrats that are not on board that their chances of getting anything they want from the president are just not going to happen if they don't play ball!
The president has to play hardball now, and he has to put the republicans in their place. They don't make the rules, and he should let them do so. I just hope he has a plan, and that this is part of it, because I am afraid that if he doesn't follow through on this with a "real" public option, then it will anger a lot of those who voted for him on this issue, and I think that is a whole lot of people. He can get the ball back, but he needs to do it fast before the republicans get to far down the road with it.
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