lwcon's Journal - Fool me infinitely, shame on... whom?

First, progressives got suckered into believing that the wafty "public option" was:

1. An apt substitute for real health-care reform (i.e., single-payer or socialized medicine)
2. Such an exciting promise that they should ignore Obama's, Daschle's, and Baucus's outright lies about an open and transparent process that considered all options.

And now the punch line:

Even while President Obama was saying that he thought a public option was a good idea and encouraging supporters to believe his healthcare plan would include one, he had promised for-profit hospital lobbyists that there would be no public option in the final bill.

And they said irony was dead!