I agree with Joe that this development shouldn’t have been news to anyone who has been listening over the past months to what President Obama has actually had to say about the public option. Here’s what I wrote on that score last night for TIME.com.
Now, back to my vacation, where–despite my best efforts to avoid it–the saturation coverage of the town halls is taking a toll. Every time I tell one of the Swampkids no on anything, he wails: “I want my America back!”