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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (320295)	8/19/2009 4:19:34 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	5 Recommendations of 793928

"I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform." "It's a mystifying thing," he added. "We're forgetting why we are in this." Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue. "It took on a life of its own," he said Someone at Patterico quoted these lines, and suggested that White House staffers should really avoid the word "Waterloo." But I'm mystified that they are mystified. They didn't expect the left to be attached to the public option? When without the public option, you might not get to single payer at all? I thought they just didn't understand conservatives, but it turns out they don't understand their own base either! Does the Obama White House favor any policy as a policy, or just as a kind of political trophy? And if Obama doesn't care that much about the policy, why the hell didn't he craft something moderate enough to pass? Because his original plan was to jam a left-wing bill through in three weeks, and he decided not to change the plan even though conditions had become adverse? How stupid was that! The scary thing is that his plan might have worked, if he had tried it in February and if the economy had been in good shape. The scarier thing is that his plan might still work in some form.

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