Via Breitbart, your transparent White House lie of the day. If this were remotely true, Obama never would have flirted with health-care co-ops or reached out to Grassley and Snowe for political cover on a phony “bipartisan” bill. He’d have drawn a line in the sand, demanded the public option that he’s been dreaming of for years, and told the Blue Dogs that they can either get on board or face reconciliation in the Senate and an all-out media blitz from the White House press shop and lefty PACs. (And yes, reconciliation is feasible, even though it would be difficult.) Sure, it would have alienated the GOP, the centrist wing of his own party, and the growing majority that opposes ObamaCare, but so what? The dream of Hopenchange would have been realized. And according to our pal Gibbsy, that’s all that matters. <br />The hard truth for the left is that our supposedly genius president may be a one-termer anyway, precisely because he isn’t willing to make tough, risky decisions:
