When Is a Deal Not a Deal…?
To judge from today’s press reports from CongressDaily, when the deal is made by Democrats. The apparent confusion and U-turns over the specifics of the hospital “deal” follows yesterday’s abrupt reversal on a government-run plan — where an article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal quoting Rahm Emanuel as saying that a government-run health plan could be “negotiable” prompted the White House to issue a statement yesterday morning stating the President “look[ed] forward to a final product” with a government-run health plan in it, as such a program was “one of the best ways to bring down costs.”