Please prepare yourself, I am about to say something no one on 'teh great orange Satan' would have dared say even a few weeks ago. Thank you, Harry Reid.
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As the hot, tea bagging, town hallin' summer wore on, many people on this site attacked Reid, and justifiably so, for his performance as Senate Majority Leader. Four days ago, 80% of voting Kossacks disapproved of Reid on the front page leadership poll, myself included. I just changed my vote.
At times he has been ineffectual. At times (many times, really) weak. And at times I cursed until I was blue in the face, because health care has always been a very important issue to me, and the kowtowing to moderate Dems was just too much. He always told us he just needed 60, and then once we had that, it wasn't enough. He let Baucus control the process for far too long, and we lost control of the dialogue. We were right to reprimand him at that point.
But it appears that he may have pulled one off here. Opt-out public option is about all we could have asked for, and compared to the trigger it is heavenly. So I'll say it once more, and with effect. Thank you Senator Reid.
And as a relatively new diarist, I'm sorry if I've broken any rules in publishing this diary. I'll be around for a few minutes to fix mistakes and discuss. Thanks in advance for your comments.