House rejected 11 amendments that would have required them to enroll in the public option

  During the House debate over healthcare reform there were eleven amendments offered that were rejected which would have required the members of congress to sign up for the public option that they were adamant should be in the healthcare reform bill.

  It appears as though what is good enough for us– the unwashed masses– just isn’t good enough for the president, vice-president, Supreme Court justices, or members of congress and all other federal employees, at least according to the members of the House.

  If this public option was as brilliant and as innocuous as we are being led to believe than you would think that our leaders would want to lead by example and join the rank and file.

  What are members of the House worried about? Why do they want to impose on us what they themselves are not willing to enroll in? It seems to me that the best way for the House to show all of the people who oppose the public option, whom they are trying to marginalize, are wrong about the public option that they could have proved its merits by agreeing to enroll in the option.

  But they were unwilling to do so. Eleven times they had the chance to show us that they had enough faith in the public option to enroll in it themselves and eleven times they decided not to even entertain the option.

  This tells us all that we need to know about the public option. While they may think that the public option is right for us, they know that the public option is not right for them.