Several weeks ago Sen. Mary Landrieu claimed to be against the public option, which she described as “government-run, taxpayer subsidized.” Of course there is no truth behind her claim. The public option, as it has been proposed for months, would be funded through premiums, and would not get any special government funds beyond a startup [...]

The House bill receives big endorsements from AMA, AARP, American Cancer Society, and Consumers Union. Jane and AMSA medical students visit the Senate to help stop the Eshoo Amendment. Hundreds rally in support of the public option today. Dayen looks at how the House bill deals with (eliminates) the SCHIP program. DCCC head Chris Van [...]

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) was orginally scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Palm Beach County Democratic Party’s annual fundraiser. (The fundraiser had previously been known as the Jefferson-Jackson dinner, but this year was renamed the Truman-Kennedy-Johnson dinner.) Landrieu was disinvited by the local party committee because she has not yet decide to support [...]

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has never been a fan of the public option. We now know that she is actively working to kill the public option with help of Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and, of course, the trigger. “What we have to move forward thinking about is, as the president has said, people keeping what they have [...]

The Hill is reporting that a new bipartisan group of seven senators has been formed to try to pass “bipartisan” health care reform. The new Senate group includes GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Landrieu and Ron Wyden (Ore.). [...]

Sen. Landrieu is thought to be the only Democrat in the Senate who is potentially vulnerable this cycle, and a new poll has mixed news. She is up 6%, 46%-40% against party-switching, political opportunist John Kennedy (he was elected State Treasurer as a Democrat, but switched his party affiliation to run in this race).

So she is winning, but any incumbent under 50% is most certainly vulnerable (the one caveat here