A NYT poll of Speaker Pelosi’s staff shows nearly unanimous support for single payer health care.

(Margin of error +/- 0)

In a few weeks, it’s the only place left to find support.

1. Even Nate Silver contemplates that this process is going to take a looooong time (his words).

2. The August recess was good for showing the intensity of opposition, and getting that into the media. That was important. But the polling had ObamaCare tanking long before then, which is why Congress couldn’t ram this through before the recess.

I say take the year in jail. You’ll probably be unemployed anyway, and you’ll get free health care in jail.

WHAT? Being the sacrificial lambs being herded off a cliff isn’t popular?

marklmail on September 25, 2009 at 2:20 PM

Why of course it’s popular…with the wolf pack living in the gorge at the bottom.

In your last link of this article, Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standards says, “The public option will probably be dumped tomorrow. Would co-ops survive a real public debate? Not likely.” While this may be good news because we, (most of us), know that both the public option or co-ops mean some form of government control over health care choices, my concern is at what point would there be “public debate” for even the co-ops? After the committee has already passed/written this as proposed legislation?. While Mr. Goldfarb suggest that co-ops wouldn’t likely survive public debate, isn’t the horse already out of the barn so to speak?

I guess my point is, we didn’t seem to get much time to have a public debate before the stimulus package was shoved down our throats. If it wasn’t for the August recess, public opposition to this and most of the other spending legislation may have never reached the level where our reps were forced to consider the preservation of their jobs. It just seems there is a short window of time between when legislators pass their “stuff” out of committees and the chance for real public debate.