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WASHINGTON -- The gutsy admonition that "failure is not an option" has turned into the "failed public option" in President Obama's trouble-plagued, government-run health care plan.
The idea of the federal government operating another health-insurance business to compete with Blue Cross/Blue Shield and hundreds of other private plans has crashed and burned -- the victim of a massive grassroots protest movement and deepening fears and divisions among Democratic lawmakers.
The White House gave Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the go-ahead Sunday to suggest that the administration was not necessarily wedded to a government health-insurance plan for millions of uninsured...
Wheels Coming Off the Obama Agenda
Carter is near the bottom but he was no Buchanan, no Pierce, no Harding, no Andrew Johnson.
DVangura:
Critics of the Democratic Progressive Party used to say that it was neither democratic nor progressive. But the Democratic Party is not totalitarian and if you actually knew what a totalitarian government was like you wouldn't make such a stupid claim. Obama is not Mao, not Kim Il Sung (or Kim Jung Il as far as that goes), not Stalin, not Pol Pot. They aren't even authoritarian such...