TPM has a great interview with Chuck Schumer about the discussion between Harry Reid and the White House on the opt out public option versus the triggered public option. It certainly sounds like the White House doesn’t trust Reid to count votes. And I don’t either.
Throughout the HRC HCR process, whenever I’ve read anything Chuck Schumer said about it, it’s made me wish that the Lord of Flatbush was running the Senate instead of Harry Reid. The guy may be a whore for AIPAC, financial companies, and probably all kinds of other scumbags, but he’s tough, he knows how to win elections, and I bet he’d know how to get what he wanted through the Senate.