The "tide has turned sharply against the public option..." (oh, really??)

[Peregrine Took]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/57797-tide-turns-against-public-option-on-eve-of-address

If true, its time for a civil war in the Democratic Party, IMO.

[WCGreen]

1. Perhaps amongst the corporate tools in congress but I am sure

it is still favored by a majority of Americans.

[chelsea0011]

2. Where is this BS coming from. I saw a repuke on yesterday saying

the public has spoken and they have voiced that no one wants a public option. They just say anything.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. "They just say anything"

And it works because our country is full of morans.

People's future is at stake, but they'll sell it off to the first idiot with a sound byte.

[BOSSHOG]

4. The trash on right wing radio pull it out of their nasty asses

The vast majority of Americans hate Obama and democrats and the public option and clean water. Thats what the lemmings hear every day.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. I saw Baucus just this morning saying

and I'll paraphrase because I can't find a reference to it on the Google "It becomes more apparent to me every day that 'the public auction' cannot pass in the Senate".

[TheKentuckian]

5. They are using the cover of town howlers and the complicit media to pretend "the public has spoken"

I do think the really high support numbers were soft but I suspect the majority either wants the option or don't really care but it is probably 60/40 and closer to 50/50. One thing is crystal clear there was never anything like 60-70% for single payer. I don't think much more than 60% would actually support any government program here (at least until passed), much less one that eliminates a private enterprise. As I suspected, as soon as the noise machine fired up a great many ran to the hills and shaking their fists at 'gobmint'.

Don't over do the faith in polls. Even when accurate, we can forget what a fickle people we are with a very brief attention span.

[G_j]

7. the tide was always against a PO

nothing new

[FiveGoodMen]

8. If you mean the tide of industry players and their gone-native would-be overseers, then yes

[G_j]

9. yes

certainly not the tide of the American people who want it.