Reply #10: I was saying that regardless of what was said in the meeting. [View All]

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People against the public option will still try to make it look like they still have some effect.

The only way they can stop public option is to change public opinion, and the first way to change public opinion is to make them think they have no hope of succeeding.

So if a Senator does not want public option, he, like the media has been doing, will keep saying it is not likely, even when it is likely.

The way public opinion can be stifled is to instill hopelessness which leads to apathy, and can erode the 80% support for a public option.

So my response to Baucus being pleased, is to say even if he was not pleased he might say he was. However he may be having a change of heart and embracing the public option also.

Which is why I said the article does not give enough information to determine current direction from the article alone.