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* Has Rahm Emanuel been privately pushing a watered down public health care option for months?

* Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders double-team Rahm in interviews with Sam Stein.

* The moral of the Rahm debacle: How quickly Dems forget that they, you know, won.

* TPM reports that health reform types aren’t really buying Obama’s commitment to a public option.

* Republicans agree with Sarah Palin’s claim that the media is out to get her.

* Michael Goldfarb reports that the Israelis know they may have to defy Obama to attack Iran.

* Obama concedes to Jake Tapper that the jury’s out on whether his Iran policies will work.

* The White House isn’t worried about that bad Ohio poll. Yet.

* No timeline yet from Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid on repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

* Andrew Sullivan sees the slow death of the big journalistic brands as a cause for optimism.

* And Adam Nagourney suggests the unthinkable: Maybe Palin doesn’t have some grand and elaborate scheme lurking behind her impulsive decision to quit.

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Posted by Greg Sargent | 07/07/2009, 05:32 PM EST | Categories: Happy Hour Roundup, House Dems, Iran, President Obama, Senate Dems, diplomacy, gay rights, health care, polling
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8 Responses

  1. Argoth | July 7th, 2009 at 06:16 pm

    If Rahm has indeed been going behind the president’s back to quash the public option than I am sure we will/should have seen him replaced or step down.

  2. sgwhiteinfla | July 7th, 2009 at 06:38 pm

    Greg

    There was something in the HuffPo article that I had been considering all day but I didn’t want to make it seem like I was making excuses for Rahm Emmanuel.

    In private, White House officials say that Emanuel’s remarks have been overplayed. His interview was with multiple papers, one administration official noted, yet only The Journal made him appear to be endorsing the trigger option, which would prohibit the implementation of a government-run option until certain economic conditions were met.

    And that leads me to question why this WhiteHouse even deals with any Rupert Murdock owned media outfit. I would love to see the write ups of the other media outlets that were there to compare and contrast the coverage.

  3. Argoth | July 7th, 2009 at 06:42 pm

    I second that sgw!!!

  4. John Zapisek | July 7th, 2009 at 08:09 pm

    quinnipiac poll: oh ind: approve=38 diaspprove=48

  5. John Zapisek | July 7th, 2009 at 08:10 pm

    … thatls for obama.

  6. sgwhiteinfla | July 7th, 2009 at 08:10 pm

    Greg, this deserves an update after all the **** going on today with Rahm and healthcare!

    http://www.rollcall.com/news/36546-1.html

    The headline is Reid to Baucus: Stop Chasing GOP Votes On Health Care

    I damn near fainted

  7. jzap | July 7th, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    SG:  Yep, I saw that article.

    [Harry] Reid, whose leadership is considered crucial if President Barack Obama is to deliver on his promise of enacting health care reform this year…

    Hoo, boy.  Obama is in trouble…

  8. Greg Sargent | July 8th, 2009 at 06:46 am

    SG — thanks for that. I’m going to try to see if we can find either a tape or transcript, or if not, other reporters who were there…

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