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Originally Posted by Antitrust32

uhh the president did want a public option. he asked for it especially at first and then backed off when the SENATE wouldnt approve a public option.

Yes. That was some time ago, though, right?

Because then the Senate and House each passed their own versions of healthcare reform.

Then the House voted upon and approved the Senate version, with reconcilation measures. Then the bill with reconciliation measures went back to the Senate.

Then the Senate Paralimentarian did find a couple things that sent it back to the House.

At that point, there were definitively enough House votes for a public option, and there definitively enough Senate votes for a public option (for when they got the bill back again) In the two weeks leading up to the reconcilation voting process, the progressive Dems pushed hard for a public option, and Obama told them to not put it back in there, even though the votes were clearly and easily there when simple majority was counted in the Senate (and the House version had already passed with a public option intact)

So what was passed for healthcare reform isn't even as "left" as what the Republicans presented, when they countered Clinton's healthcare reform package, and isn't even as "left" as what Richard Nixon proposed when he was President.

And Obama, when the votes were clearly there, for a second time backed off on the public option.

You just proved he's governing from the left, lefty.

Doesn't seem so, when looking at the facts.