Reid to Netroots: "We're Going To Have a Public Option"

American Spectator ^ | 7/24/2010 | Philip Klein

[tobyhill]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there would eventually be a public option.

"We're going to have a public option," Reid said. "The only question is when."

Reid's general comments reflected the same overall message to progressives that President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered earlier today. It essentially boils down to: We've done a lot of stuff, but we still have a lot of unfinished business, so campaign for us again.

[snarkbait]

Yes indeed... A “Public Option” to kick Reid’s dumb a$$ out of the senate.

[Marty62]

Yeah they sure have done a lot of STUFF.

They have lied to the American People and they gloat over it.

[Psycho_Bunny]

What...11% isn’t low enough?

[hattend]

How is it an option if it is mandatory?

[Sarah Barracuda]

It’s not really Harry Reid’s fault..he was born stupid..there really isn’t a cure for straight up stupidity. I checked out the 2500 pages of ObamaCare, no cure for stupidity in there

[Gene Eric]

>> he was born stupid

Stupid is no excuse for advancing Socialism against the Liberties the citizens of this great Country have fought and died for.

[M-cubed]

U need to get up to speed on Newspeak!

[SmartInsight]

“We’re going to have a public option,” Reid said. “The only question is when.”

Except it won’t be an “option” — it will be full government run healthcare, dispensed and rationed by the government — UNLESS we stop it by electing a Republican Congress.

If this doesn’t motivate people to get out and vote, I don’t know what will.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I know, I was just saying what Reid is..the people of Nevada better throw his ass out. He and Pelosi are the worst of all. I read a few days ago a poll that actually shows him leading, that better not be true

[JPG]

Harry needs to be sent back to Searchlight, NV, where he can engage full time in his favorite passion....drinking a 6-pack while watching a bug zapper.

[hattend]

...UNLESS we stop it by electing a Republican Conservative Congress.

There, fixed it

[Americanexpat]

They have no respect for the American people and they are total liars, Zero, Pelosi and Ried are just three of them.

I hope we can gain contro of both houses and start repealling these laws and all the shit passed to take away our privacy our 1st Amendment rights.

[Gene Eric]

>> a poll that actually shows him leading

The NRA deserves some credit for that.

[Americanexpat]

I hope the tea parties can keep up the pressure and remind people of all the crap that has gone down in the last two years. There is so much good material out there to hammer these bastards up to the 2010 and 2012 elections with really great campaign ads..

[StAnDeliver]

"We're going to have a public option," Reid said.

Nope.

[upchuck]

Bump your correction. Screw the pubbies. We need some new Conservative blood in Congress.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Then bring it on NOW, Senator.....you coward.

[rlmorel]

BWAAAAHAAAHAA!

I went into a Dollar Store tonight, and I saw Harry Reid’s book “The Good FIght” there!!!!

Not kidding! Now, THAT put a grin on my face!

[Munz]

>It’s not really Harry Reid’s fault..he was born stupid..there really isn’t a cure for straight up stupidity<

true, but you have to work really hard at being a complete a##hole and he has had his nose to the grindstone on that count.