Who Wrote This?
Have you read something like this before?
[T]he reality is that the first and worst deception was the Democrats' own. Step back for a second, listen to what the non-screaming skeptics are saying, and it's clear the party severely overestimated its mandate . . . What would have been a hard sell in any environment has turned into an epic challenge. Yet the Democrats have been charging ahead as if it's still November 2008, oblivious to the dramatic change in the electorate's mood.
. . . The left assumed that change on health care meant a public insurance plan. But most other Obama voters had (and likely still have) no idea what the term "public option" meant. If they were voting for him on health care at all, it was simply for lower costs and better care. They may have been open to that component of Obama's plan, as polls earlier this year showed. But to say that a vote for Obama was a vote for a public option is as much a canard as Palin's phony claims about death panels.
(Emphasis supplied.) No. It was not Ezra Klein. That would be the dangerstein hisself. Though confusion would be understandable.
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