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Posted on 09/03/2009 at 8:28 pm by admin

by Lee Stranahan

As you might guess, I’m in favor of this.

In a letter delivered to the White House moments ago, the two leaders of the bloc of House progressives bluntly told President Obama that they will not support any health care plan without a public option in it — and demanded a meeting to inform him face to face.

The not-yet-released letter — the first joint statement from progressives since news emerged that Obama might not address the public option in next week’s speech — is their sharpest challenge yet to the president, given the extraordinary sensitivity of this political moment. The letter urges him to mention the public option in his speech.

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  • roxsteady

    Me too! The President needs to be very clear about the public option or he’ll have gotten through a weak bill in his one term presidency. If he’s willing to stake his presidency on healthcare reform as he’s previosuly said, he should make it a real bill and not this bullshit we’re hearing about through unnamed sources! Congress should stand firm on this. This will crush the Dems in 2010 because many of us will no longer give a damn about this president or his party of capitulators to the GOP. They need to remember just who won the 2008 election and stop acting like pussies in the face of a tiny party of wingnuts!

  • Allonfla

    Yeah, so what is the House doing to get the Senate to include a PO? All I see are lips moving, what have they been doing to convince their colleagues in the Senate?

  • http://bethanysworld.com bethany

    OMG… Progressive Democrats grew a pair…Wow.

  • roxsteady

    Those are 83 vote the whitehouse can’t count on with out the public option. That’s big!

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    83 House votes against one Olympia Snowe. I’m thinking it’s more than a balance.

  • Terri

    Lee, what do you think Obama’s response will be?What do you think he will reply?

  • MrBrink

    Addressing a joint session of congress is kind of of a big deal.And Greg Sargent wrote this: I don’t normally link to Fred Barnes, but this rundown of the speaking that Obama has already done on health care does seem like useful context:“Between July 20 and July 30, President Obama was a busy man, barely out of the public eye while campaigning furiously for his health care initiative. He did four town hall events, spoke at two hospitals, delivered a radio address, was interviewed on two network TV news shows, and held a prime time press conference–all devoted to promoting his health care plan. On this issue as on no other, Obama personally took his case to the people.” —Who knew, right?Joint session!

  • jjasonham

    Please, sir, may I have another. More of this.