Sep 15

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9/15/2009 11:02 AM 

Today, Sep 15. Dennis Kucinich charted the passage of public option health care legislation through Congress. He said it will fail in the Senate and the final bill will be horrible. I won't, could not,  dispute his prediction but can offer a different view on that loss in the Senate. Dennis kind of implies that the PO is desirable, although he maybe just didn't want to clutter his prediction, and can safely assume that everybody knows he is for SP period.  So here's my take: The PO thing was from the start a fake candidate. The administration's plan is to keep SP out of the debate by drawing attention to the " next best", "step in the right direction" PO.  PO of course would then conveniently die, from natural and inflicted causes.

A few months ago I ventured an explanation of why the PO would fail, calling it the "free lunch" analysis. In retrospect that logic was off some, but no matter. As to the title of this post, I think it refers to something Dennis said.