If President Obama Doesn't Achieve a Government Health Insurance Option, His Presidency May be Imperiled

By GottaLaff

Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, via my pal Mark Karlin's post. A few excerpts:

Yet, President Obama -- with all his promise of change and taking on the "K Street" lobbyists and the leeches who suck away at our treasury with programs that fleece the taxpayer -- won't wholeheartedly commit himself to a government option. He almost comes off as someone standing on the sidelines while the forces with money pummel and ridicule the very historic alteration of America into a nation that benefits its citizens that he promised. [...]

We knew Obama in Illinois. As anyone who reads BuzzFlash knows, we fiercely fought for him in the Democratic primary and the general election.

But we did not know that his desire not to alienate the D.C. villagers would lead to his capitulation on change and evolve it into an acceptance that he is not going to risk leadership with the audacity of fighting for what Americans need for their healthcare, and what will be most cost-effective. In short, Rahm Emanuel and others are telling him that the moneybags of the health insurance industry have too much power to be defeated by the President of the United States.