An administration official said tonight that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “misspoke” when she told CNN this morning that a government run health insurance option “is not an essential part” of reform. This official asked not to be identified in exchange for providing clarity about the intentions of the President.
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A second official, Linda Douglass, director of health reform communications for the administration, said that President Obama believed that a public option was the best way to reduce costs and promote competition among insurance companies, that he had not backed away from that belief, and that he still wanted to see a public option in the final bill.
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A third White House official, via e-mail, said that Sebelius didn’t misspeak. “The media misplayed it,” the third official said.
A fourth official, speaking off the record, asked, “Do these pants make my elbow look fat?”
A fifth official, speaking from deep cover, said, “We here at the White House want to assure the American public that, notwithstanding that last official’s comments, we actually do know our elbows from our…. Oh, wait. I’ll have to get back to you. There’s a shiny object I need to look at.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the “best and brightest”.
When kathleen was governor here in Kansas, we got used to her “misspeaking” all the time. A lot of us new she was a liar then. But now she is at the mercy of that douglass “woman.”
It seems that the obambozo gang in DC is not on the same page, with anyone. When a CinC picks cabinet secretaries with lackluster character and radical viewpoints, something really stupid is bound to happen.
Pretty much an Idiot Locker.
I don’t believe the ‘Public Option’ is dead yet. I expect the dems will now try subterfuge to get the public option passed.
If the public option is so good, then put all federal govt. employees and union members in it.
Dang, with these Obama bureaucrats, socialism is like a religion without the fun parts, or the freedom.