Schumer: The More GOP Oppose The Public Option, The Stronger It Gets

Photo from Stephen Crowley of the NYT

Interesting stuff:

Check out this interesting quote in today’s New York Times from Senator Chuck Schumer on why the GOP’s continued opposition to Dem health care proposals makes a public option more likely to happen, rather than less likely:

“One of the strongest arguments against a public option has been that the Republicans will never go for it,” Mr. Schumer said. “Well, the Baucus bill doesn’t have a public option, and they’re still not for it in any way, with the possible exception of Olympia Snowe,” a moderate Republican senator from Maine, who has not ruled out supporting the overhaul that Mr. Obama is seeking.

And Schumer is right here, because the Republican Party is still at record low popularity. No one trusts them anymore (except either the utterly delusional, utterly selfish, utterly hateful or utterly ignorant amongst us), and the more they oppose something vehemently, the more the rational correct ideas the majority in the real mainstream favor.

So their opposition of it has actually facilitated the public option that a lot in the media thought was dead when there was no, NO indication of it being completely gone at all at any point.

Interesting stuff from the New York Senior Senator. Truthful stuff.

Hopefully they will strengthen it to the point where the passing of it actually happens.