I mean, seriously:
A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that health
reform won’t get through the House without a public option, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Friday that the public option may have to go in order to get a bill passed.
"I’m for a public option but I’m also for passing a bill," Hoyer told reporters on a conference call
. "We believe the public option is a necessary useful and very important aspect of this, but we’ll have to see because there are many other important aspects of the bill as well."
First of all, let's not even talk about the fact that you just contradicted your Speaker:
In San Francisco Thursday, Pelosi said: "There's no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option."
Let's talk about something that you said you're willing to leave out of a bill even though you just said in the same breath that is "necessary".
What exactly is your definition of "necessary", Congressman? You're willing to pass something without a component that's "necessary" to make it work?
That means one of two things: you're just throwing some nice-sounding words out there (a la Sarah Palin) to make liberals happy, or you just want to pass something to say you passed something.
I don't like either of those two possibilities. This is the kind of sh*t that really pisses me off.