California Conservative

This is getting more fun by the minute. Now the Obama administration is walking Kathy Sebelius’s statement, saying they aren’t waving the white flag on the public option:

An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option “is not an essential part” of reform. This official asked not to be identified in exchange for providing clarity about the intentions of the President. The official said that the White House did not intend to change its messaging and that Sebelius simply meant to echo the president, who has acknowledged that the public option is a tough sell in the Senate and is, at the same time, a must-pass for House Democrats, and is not, in the president’s view, the most important element of the reform package.

Now that’s what I call professional messaging. NOT!!! No wonder they’re losing this fight. The HHS secretary says that the public option isn’t an essential element of health care reform. A White House official says that it’s difficult walking a tightrope considering the fact that the far left progressives insist on single-payer while timid moderates insist on committing political mass suicide.

Meanwhile, President Obama says that there’s alot of tension in all this because it won’t be easy for him to hand out the amounts of goodies it’ll take to buy off enough Blue Dogs in the Senate or enough progressives in the House.

If that isn’t enough, Senate Democrats announced that they were removing the death panel provision from their bill right after they denied such a provision existed.

Meanwhile, the American people are watching the different wings of the Democratic Party fight amongst themselves like children going through terrible twos. Though they’re probably enjoying the calamity, at some point, John Q. Public will tire of the Democrats’ infighting, decide that hopeandchange was just a bill of goods, and elect Republicans because they’ll pass for adults.

The Democrats’ messaging is proof to me that there is a God in Heaven and that He is indeed good. My suggestion? Sit back and watch the fight.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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