If true, given what's been being said all day, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever ...
Multiple sources tell TPMDC that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is very close to rounding up 60 members in support of a public option with an opt out clause, and are continuing to push skeptical members. But they also say that the White House is pushing back against the idea, in a bid to retain the support of Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME).
"They're skeptical of opt out and are generally deferential to the Snowe strategy that involves the trigger," said one source close to negotiations between the Senate and the White House. "they're certainly not calming moderate's concerns on opt out."
I'm guessing this is one of a series of trial balloons, probably being sent from well within the White House (coughcoughRAMNhack), either because somebody really, REALLY wants to see Obama and the Democrats implode and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the name of an empty idea of 'bipartisanship' ... or a ploy to keep pressure on Reid and company NOT to capitulate and get the strongest public option in the Senate bill possible.
I mean, does ANYBODY think the House will tolerate a trigger?
Or, would the trigger be the Senate plan, Medicare +5 be the House plan, and Opt-Out be the ultimate compromise?
This is really getting dizzying ...