Harry Reid is leaning toward including the Public Option with an Opt Out provision. He doesn't necessarily have 60 votes in hand but thinks he might be close. Yesterday's leak is a trial balloon to see what kind of pushback he gets from his own party. Snowe (a Republican) bit and said she could not vote for this. No other Democrats have come out so strong. The real wild card will be Joe Lieberman of Conneticut. He is an independant who plays with the Democrats. Remember Joe was John McCain's big guy last election. President Obama came in and saved his skin after the election and let him stay on as Chairman of his Committee. Could this be the payback time?
Remember a couple of days I linked a post to Fivethirtyeight.com that was suggesting the Opt Out will be the final version. Yesterday's news looks to give that assessment some weight.
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