Roller Coaster

I knew giving her praise yesterday would be temporary. You just had to feel it:

Pelosi's spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, pushed back against recent news reports that Speaker Pelosi was going to drop the deal that she had made with the Blue Dog Democrats not to have the public option be pegged to Medicare plus rates in order to be competitive. Here's what he said below:

Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami emailed us late last night to assert that no final decisions have been made on the shape of the public option: “It is inaccurate for anyone to assert that the Speaker or the Leadership has determined the form of the public option. How we move forward on the public option will continue to be discussed by the Leadership and the Caucus, which will meet on Thursday."

Yeah, what a surprise.

And notice the phrase "form of the public option."

Will she cave or not is just the answer that will suffice. A civil war will probably happen if she does.