Mad at Obama

I was listening to the Countdown podcast this morning covering how Obama is backtracking on the public option for healthcare reform. This makes me so mad. In fact, I was so mad I made several wrong turns and was almost late to work. I'm to the left of Obama on pretty much everything, but I'm also a pragmatist, so I knew he was going to present only a moderate degree of improvement over Bush in areas like foreign policy and immigration and gay rights. But I expected him to fight harder over healthcare.

Hank Johnson is one of the Reps who says he is determined to vote against any bill that does not include a public option. I agree with that. The line has to be held somewhere. We've already compromised and compromised to the point that even one step more is going to mean defeat.