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We have come a long way from Reaganomics with Fox News now declaring that 55% of Americans are Left Wing Radicals!

Jon Stewart also reminds us that the Public Option is already the moderate compromise to the Left Wing desire for a Single Payer system.

There seems to be 4 issues at work that keep moderates in congress from endorsing a public option.

1) Taking big money from big insurance companies (Max Baucus).

2) Radical Republican ideology of unregulated free markets and that taxes / government is all bad unless it supports war, prisons, executions and getting more guns out on the streets. (The Republican Party)

3) Being a snot nosed little hypocritical turncoat creepy crawler (Joe Lieberman)

4) Politicians who fear they will lose the next election because their constituents find a public option worse than Hitler! (Mary Landriau)

The largest factor seems to be #4, whether it’s a Democrat worried about a Republican taking their place or a Republican worried about a more conservative candidate in their primaries.

So why do these politicians constituents – who are middle and lower class voters – so despise a public option?

These KIND OF CONSTITUENTS will have to pay taxes to support a Public Option in some way. And WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE do they perceive as those opting for that Public Option?  Duh…