Is Harry Reid Planning To Sell Out The Public Option?

By GottaLaff

Glass half empty? Or glass completely empty?

It looks like Harry Reid is getting ready to sell out the labor unions, the progressive community, the Democratic base, and the majority of the American people. [...]

There is only two possible conclusions:

• Reid thinks Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln are bluffing. He believes that in the end when he stand up to them they will fold. (Given Reid’s track record I would not be holding my breath for that)
• Reid is planning to sell out the American people who overwhelming support the public option. He is planning cripple the public option with a trigger or remove it all together. [...] They will be given not only veto power over health care reform, but over every issue the progressive community cares about.

If this is accurate, and he's planning to sell us out, then he just ensured his being voted out of office in 2010.

As the voice of the L.A. Lakers, Chick Hearn, used to say, the outcome of the game is "in the refrigerator: the door is closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard, and the Jell-O's jigglin'."

Let's hope the author of that Firedoglake post is wrong, and that the fridge door is still ajar.