“It speaks to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “It speaks to a vision that goes back to a New Deal understanding of what working people deserve,” referencing the era of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the label given his domestic policies.
“And I’ll tell you that for too long that kind of politics, you can only find it in history books, and we need to bring it back to the present day.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/report-lincoln-won-t-support-public-option
We know exactly how she would have voted when she was publicly saying she stood with Liberman even with the already watered down public option proposed by the ACA.
As for Conrad, you literally quoted him saying he won’t vote for a government run plan but supports a government run plan. You’ve got to be as dense as a fruitcake to think that this guy supported a public government run option especially when his actions show the direct opposite of supporting it. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/conrad-settles-into-familiar-role-hard-to-see-how-a-public-option-gets-the-votes
That’s not falling for a hit piece, that’s called a shitty conservative taking out both sides of their mouths while killing a moderate proposal of a public option.
Also, let’s get back to your ludicrous claim that the original public option was just like Germany current plan.
The word preclude means “to make impossible” meaning Conrad’s spokesperson’s statement “previous comments do not rule out Public Option”.
I can’t tell if you’re misleading others or misled yourself.
And as for that quote of Lincoln, her campaign website still said otherwise. Keep in mind that during all of this there was a large organized campaign to change her mind including billboards and calls to action wherein people were urged to contact her office, she actually changed her stance multiple times throughout. Her major complaints were about deficit which were easily dismissed as the bill did not increase deficit at all.