Compared to most of the other sites, this site has given a lot of cover to Obama and Rahm and has avoided stating the obvious. Obama wants Triggers. Snowe's support is the cover, the excuse for wanting triggers. And before Olympia Snowe, Max Baucus was the cover, the excuse.
You are in denial, I was too thru the entire weekend. But not once senior White House official comes out on Sunday and says "We prefer opt-out PO, and triggers are our second best option".
Yes, you are in denial, I was too thru the entire weekend. Not a single person from the White House (preferably who has a name and title and who doesnt whisper into ears of journalists like a fucking coward giving anonymous fucking quotes) has come out and said : Preference # 1 is PO with state Opt-out for which Harry Reid has 58-59 votes and preference # 2 is Snowe Triggers if that's what is takes.
Now that would be an honest answer.
Its not like they never talk about it. They have address their position on public option many times before. There is no political reason to not talk about PO. They have said a million times that "public option is one way, and by far the best way to cut costs" and the President is open to other ideas.
So to say that WH is trying to avoid getting into the deliberative sausage making of congress is BS. They could have given an open-ended answer like "well we like the opt-out, but triggers would be our second choice".
So kindly stop being in denial. This one too, finally has sold us out and Rahm and company are about feed us all the shit sandwich of triggers that will never be pulled. Baucus, Snowe, Nelson, Bayh -- those are just excuses. Its the White House using them for cover.
I have gone from first stage of grief -- Denial to last stage of gried -- Acceptance. We are not getting an opt-out option. We are going to get the shit-sandwich of Snowe Triggers.