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Kohl shows unenthusiastic, ambivalent support for the public option (0.00 / 0)

     If I am decoding the politician-speak correctly, Kohl does not want to be unpopular with Dem voters. His reading of the tea leaves says that most Dems favor the public option, so he wants to appear to favor it, too. However, if it fails to pass, or if it gets passed and then later becomes unpopular, he wants to be able to say later that he reluctantly went along with it.
    Does anyone here decode his words differently, or did I nail it?

1 Corinthians 13:1 (KJV) - "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."/ GOP = Greedy Old Privatizers or Greedy Old Privateers?

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by: Christian_Dem_NY @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 20:52:23 PM CDT

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