Look at the group of so called activists who hope to come in on the "tide" of some sort of bill that WHouse needs. Any crapola bill.

So those of  the left who've been hawking a good Healthcare  bill who've caved are hoping to be included in whatever.

They have totally lost their credibility as they have shown no moral center. They are currently hiding behind a paragmatist position which is totally false.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has an amendment to create a single-payer health care system. link

The tell that the PO advocates lacked a concrete idea what a "public option" should look like is that they didn't have a particular bill to rally around (the first rule of contract negotiation, you don't want the other side to be the only one with a draft proposal).

 I know people like to think that the history of healthcare reform began with Jacob Hacker but there've been a couple of "public option" bills from the past that could have been revived and pushed as an alternative.  For example,  the 1974 Kennedy-Mills compromise bill and  the Sam Gibbons bill passed by the Ways & Means Committee in 1994.  One of Gibbons's allies, Pete Stark, re-introduced a similar "public option on steroids" bill just this past January.  Frankly, Stark's Americare bill is what the public option fans should have been lobbying and demanding CBO scoring for.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/7/739706/-Strong-Public-Option:-100-CoverageCost-Control

The first failure is clearly Obama's. He hid for political cover and made a backroom deal with Big Pharma for a 10 year program with Drug monopoly without our knowledge or consent.
So much for the transparency he promised.

 We were not educated as to what the Public Option meant to the President who says he wants Healthcare Reform. Isn't that curious? He spent months debating Hillary and telling us this was of prime importance and his Heathcare Program was superior to hers. Remember??

So when it came time for Obama to be specific he fudged and fudged. Remember his first public speech about Healthcare as President? It was deliberately vague. No details. No educating. No passion, no hope, no change.

In fact it got so bad the Repuplicans took the bait and framed and controlled the Healthcare debate, death squads and all. No one from the WHouse like er, Obama responded.     A few mismanaged Town Halls that erupted into amateurish thuggery where Obam droned on with generalities finally stopped. But nothing else took its place.

And none of our other elected representatives or congressional leaders did as they were left to thrash it out alone. Because? Because Bill Clinton told Congress what he wanted and Bill and Hill's healthcare was rejected.

So Obama's antidote was to do nothing. Which he did as he waited in the wings as the entire HCR debate spun out of control. And still is.

We all know that Obama is desperate to have a bill....any bill that can allow him to claim healthcare reform even if it isn't healthcare reform but a piece of crapola that we see before us that is using women's rights as a bartering device, and omits a public option of any reality.

So the job of our leaders is to lead. They've been hiding, manipulating, compromising, and missed the opportunity to enlighten us. Why?

They didn't quite know what kind of a bill they wanted or would get, let alone commit to, explain, or fight for.

Forget for a moment the "debates" in Washington over Afghan War policy and, if you just focus on the construction activity and the flow of money into Afghanistan, what you see is a war that, from the point of view of the Pentagon, isn't going to end any time soon. In fact, the U.S. military's building boom in that country suggests that, in the ninth year of the Afghan War, the Pentagon has plans for a far longer-term, if not near-permanent, garrisoning of the country, no matter what course Washington may decide upon. Alternatively, it suggests that the Pentagon is willing to waste taxpayer money (which might have shored up sagging infrastructure in the U.S. and created a plethora of jobs) on what will sooner or later be abandoned runways, landing zones and forward operating bases.

The building and fortifying of bases in Afghanistan isn't the only sign that the U.S. military is digging in for an even longer haul. Another key indicator can be found in a Pentagon contract awarded in late September to SOS International, Ltd., a privately owned "operations support company" that provides everything from "cultural advisory services" to "intelligence and counterintelligence analysis and training" to numerous federal agencies. That contract, primarily for linguistic services in support of military operations in Afghanistan, has an estimated completion date of September 2014.