White House, Senate Principals Discuss Public Option, But Reach No Decisions--Talks Continue Tuesday

I know as much about the White House agenda on this as the first person I'll see the next time I take a stroll downtown. Which means I don't much at all.

But I'm confident in making a couple of guesses:

1) I do think, the Obama administration genuinely feels PO is only a part of the gamut of issues on hand, and while they welcome a PO, they believe a bill without the PO can also be called "reform." Also, the Obama administration wants to ensure they have "something" to pass, more than the "right" thing. Because passing nothing is even more fatal and passing without a PO.

While I empathize with them, they should know by now in no uncertain terms for the hardcore base, it seems, the discussion begins and ends at PO. And I hope the base, so called "Whiners" keeping making noise, even if it gets a little uglier.

Boy, seeing those 4 determining the fate of this bill does not inspire confidence.

At least Dodd and Reid are in the fight of their political lives next year, and might be feeling the pressure.

There is a statement that there is no higher religion than truth and that only Truth will set us free! It is right for the Obama Administration to speak truth and to call Fox News exactly what it is, to severe the bonds of untruth and misconception they infuse into the consciousness of humanity in order to "muddy the waters".... for selfish reason -- to maintain the power of the rich!

GOP politicians and operatives continue to dishonestly and deceptively say that they cannot support a public option, they claim, because they want to keep costs down for the American people! Really? They claim this all the while knowing a public option, therebycompetition is the only way to bring about true reform and to put a Halt to the “out of control” medical costs and premiums crippling people and Employers today, making it harder and harder for everyone to realize the American Dream. One must ask themselves, If you happen to lose your job today or tomorrow during this time when we do not have healthcare reform for all, who will pay you or your family's health care bills, that is if you are lucky enough to be able to see a doctor without insurance? This American Dream, which has slowly been slipping away, is in the last throes of dying, if we do not forge a new path ahead on toward inclusion and cooperation for all. This dream of America will die to be replaced with just another third world country -- becoming another failed experiment and promise, only to go by the wayside.

There is a reason that GOP always say Gov’t is the problem. They know that when you have a party of men and women in power who do Nothing for Main Street but say no or complain, to reform, then goverment is a problem! And so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. As long as the GOP were in power or in control, the government has been a do nothing, problematic government for Average Americans and a big Boom and Bonus for the Rich and well connected. We must remember, this is Bush & the GOP’s recession. They had the power for 8 years and did nothing to uplift this country, only to rape it from Main Street, to add it to Wall Street. The GOP does not even like to raise the Minimum Wage! They care nothing if you are making it. People we must wake up now! Because look around you at the mess the United States is in and ask yourself over the last 10 years of GOP rule, what have they accomplised and what have they done for you lately? Or this country? Do you like what the United States has become? And ask yourself this, if we let them regain power again, how much more further will this country be destroyed until the United States will no longer be. That is a very frightening thought!