By GottaLaff
Here are the bare bones of Creamer's piece. I'm leaving out all the details, so please go read the whole thing:
I DO believe in fairies, I DO believe in fairies, I do I do, I do...In fact, the prospects that there will be some form of public option in the final health insurance reform measure this fall have actually increased over the last month. Here is why:
1). The odds have dropped that some sort of "bipartisan" consensus will become the final template for a bill. [...]
2). The pundits ignore the legislative facts on the ground. [...]
3). The President has made it very clear that he not only supports a public option, but he will demand some mechanism to assure a competitive market place and drive down costs. [...]
4). Giving Americans a choice of a public health insurance option remains incredibly popular. [...]
There are three major forces that keep pushing the notion that "public option is dead." First are the Republicans and insurance industry that want to weave a "public option is impossible" narrative in order to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. [...]The second is a desire in the media to create a story that President Obama has "mishandled" the health care debate. That is simply wrong. President Obama has moved us closer to giving America universal health care than any other President in 60 years, and the odds are very good he will succeed where all others have failed.
But the third is the most insidious. It is the cynicism in the media - and Washington Conventional Wisdom - that anything fundamental cannot pass out of Congress. That there isn't any hope that everyday Americans can defeat the special interests. It is the same cynicism that convinced most of the "sophisticated" in-the-know Capitol Hill insiders that Barack Obama could never be elected President. And to that cynicism I give the same answer that we gave then, and that thousands gave at the President's Minneapolis health care rally on Saturday: "yes we can."
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