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Welcome President Snowe: Obama Administration Showing Its Wimpy Colors?

By Big Tent Democrat

Via FDL, Bloomberg's interview with Obama OMB head Peter Orzag:

Congress will likely complete a health-care bill within six weeks, and a measure being drafted by the Senate Finance Committee may provide the basis for final legislation, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said. . . . Orszag signaled the administration doesn’t consider a government-run insurance program essential to the legislation. He suggested it would be sufficient to either create nonprofit insurance-purchasing cooperatives or set “triggers” to activate a public option if needed to cut costs.

(Emphasis supplied.) Three points. One, 6 weeks is AFTER the deadline for including a public option in a reconciliation bill. Second, it has been established that co-ops are usless. Third, it has been established that President Snowe's trigger proposal is a joke.

If Orzag is right, on the issue of health care reform President Obama has turned over the reins to "President" Olympia Snowe. What a wimpy Administration. Jimmy Carter comes to mind.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).