Oh boy…..here we go.

It seems that there is a TON of confusion coming out of Washington this week in regards to the proposed health care legislation being hammered out in committees.

And it’s only Tuesday.

The President and his can’t shoot straight gang have all along been proposing a public option to help combat the alleged deficiencies that are in our private health care system. The goal of course is too eliminate private insurance all together at some point and to eventually go with a single payer system like Canada and Great Britain. If you don’t believe me here is the President talking about this issue right HERE

Well over the weekend some member of his administration indicated that possibly the public option was off the table. The team over at the White House must have been watching MSNBC and actually believed that the opposition to this was actually ASTROTURF ( like they know what that means) and was not credible. I have a feeling the internal numbers are coming in and they know that they are in trouble. They realize they probably bit off more than they can chew and need to back off.

Enter Nancy Pelosi……. She evidently did not get the memo that maybe the lefitists should cool there jets.

From Fancy Nancy’s offical website

Nancy Pelosi just blasted out this statement signaling that House Dems are standing firm behind the public option, despite the White House’s apparent softening of support for it over the weekend:

“As the President stated in March, ‘The thinking on the public option has been that it gives consumers more choices and it helps keep the private sector honest, because there’s some competition out there.’

“We agree with the President that a public option will keep insurance companies honest and increase competition.

“There is strong support in the House for a public option. In the House, all three of our bills contain a public option as does the bill from the Senate HELP Committee.

“A public option is the best option to lower costs, improve the quality of health care, ensure choice and expand coverage.

I’m not sure, but I think Madame Speaker just drew a line in the sand at the Presidents feet and dared him to cross it. This is highly unusual in a big piece of legislation to come out against the person in your own party who HAPPENS to be The President of the United States and say that you are not backing down.

I think I know why.

While President Obama is still treated as somewhat of a cult figure by some in this country I think the true hard nosed politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman with good ole Barney Frank know that this POTUS can be rolled. He is not the intellectual heavyweight that the press made him out to be in the last election. They meet with him weekly , sometimes daily, and they most know that he can be pushed around. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next week or so to see who wins the day with this legislation and what stays in. The Nancy Pelosi version or The Presidents new version that can change any minute.

Only the Teleprompter truly knows!!!!

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