by Stan Cotton

This one won’t go down the memory hole.  Thanks to everyone who put an exclamation point at the end of that sentiment with their contribution.

Sam Stein over at Huffington Post reports that in a closed conference call meeting, the House Democratic Caucus stood in strong support of the public option, and more importantly, wanted it to be in the final conference report coming out of the conference committee: "Everyone has said on the record that they would support [the [...]

If you didn’t get a chance to see it, there was a panel at Netroots Nation where I discussed the netroots battle for the public plan with Chris Bowers of Open Left, Kagro X of Congress Matters, McJoan of Daily Kos and Darcy Burner.

Shorter Nita: reform is so important, she will vote for any bill including the word “reform.”

Yesterday Paul Krugman offered one of the best explanations I’ve seen yet for why the Public Option has become such a prominent factor for progressives in the health care debate: If progressives had real trust in Obama’s commitment to doing the right thing, the administration would have broad leeway to do deals. But the president [...]

As Jane noted yesterday, 60 members of the House made it clear they won’t vote for a bill without a public option, so we’ve added them to our whip count.

Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) David Sirota interviews Ed Perlmutter: Knowing the public option topic was on the mind of listeners, I made sure to ask him whether he would vote for a health care bill that did not include the public option. Perlmutter responded that he didn’t know. He did, however, seem to begin conflating a [...]

Today’s updates came from the letter signed by 60 members of the House.

Today in Politico, a “House leadership official” says that liberals will get a kabuki vote on a public plan when the health care bill goes through the House the first time, but when it comes out of conference without one, they’ll fall into line: