Aught Six is right. It's a long ways from over.
As long as Joe Lieberman keeps his promise to join Republicans in a filibuster if the Senate version includes the public option, and as long as no one defects from the GOP side, there's no way it can make it to a vote. The ball is in the court of the Republicans + Lieberman right now. I suspect that, in the end, Lieberman will ditch his threat to filibuster...but I was wrong on how most of the Blue Dogs would vote, so hopefully I'm wrong on this one too.
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Politics, it seems to me, all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
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