I think we are all pretty tired of watching Obama play “Lucy and the Football” with his Democratic base. As for his relationship with the Republicans and Blue Dogs, he is either stubbornly codependent (victim of political learned helplessness) or cravenly selling out the public trust. He has been granted the slack that was his due. But he seems lost to gamesmanship at the price of statesmanship and real reform.

Can and will the public option progressives get seriously behind Conyers HR Bill 676 Single Payer – Medicare for All (with Weiner) that will come up for a vote soon in the Fall in the House? It would be a courageous act of political will to realign so dramatically.