I'm responding to thereisnospoon's diary, currently on the rec list. It's a fine enough diary, I'm not putting it down. In fact, I agree with the basic proposition that Congress must pass health care reform at this time, no argument there.
But in reading the diary, I realized there is a huge piece of this debate that we do not have an explanation for at all: Why is there no Public Option in this Bill?
It makes me think back to the American invasion of Iraq 7 years ago and the insurgency that followed. The question I had then, which as it turned out, there was no good answer for was this: Why did we go to War with Iraq?
And so, when I read this diary, my resonse was as follows:
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