Durbin Backpeddles On Public Option |
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| By: Jane Hamsher Sunday August 9, 2009 5:52 pm | |
Appearing on CNN’s "State of the Union," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), one of the chamber’s foremost progressives, said that while he supported a government-run option for insurance, he was "open" to alternatives.
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Co-OP!
co-OP!
co-OP!
No one could have predicted….
Wasn’t this the guy who was just last week sending around a petition for a public option??
Yepper! He talked about “health insurance reform”.
http://www.enewspf.com/index.p…..d=88890012
And this morning in the NYTimes we here from Schumer:
On the “public option,” Mr. Schumer said, “if you call it a co-op but it meets certain criteria — it’s available on Day 1, it’s available to everybody, it has the strength to go up against the big insurance companies and the big suppliers to bring down prices — fine.
Why are progressives always ”open” to alternatives while Republicans and Blue Dogs are always standing firm?