Howard Dean: The Bad Outweighs the Good on Healthcare

Does this mean Howard Dean is the new Joe Lieberman? Watch him on GMA here.
It's easy to blame one person for the demise of healthcare, but if it fails, it won't be any one person's fault. The whole slew of democrats have proven themselves unqualified for such a daunting feat. Healthcare was supposed to be for the people, for the country as a whole. I think most of them lost sight of who they're working for, as usual.

I'm not sure if Dean's new opposition to the bill is motivated by politics, since he was onboard with the bill about a week ago. Has the bill changed that much? I think Dean lost some points with the left when he said he supported expanding Medicare and was willing to forgo the public option. For the left, healthcare is a failure unless there is a public option and that, in my opinion, has been the main sticking point that democrats haven't been able to resolve. Liberals made the public option the holy grail and it's not.

I think Dean's forceful opposition means that there is still a fight for the public option, so I give up on healthcare until I see a final bill. There's too much politicking going on right now to distinguish between facts and political motivations.

I don't think Obama's presidency is based on the passage of healthcare either, contrary to media blather. If healthcare fails, blame will fall squarely on the democrats.
But the republicans are hardly better. With the exception of Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, republicans stood in the way at every opportunity. If healthcare fails, much of the blame can be heaped on the republicans. They're serving a slim minority of Americans, the tea party.

Healthcare silliness:

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Update: I guess it boils down to this--- the public option is dead, Medicare expansion is dead and Dean is unhappy:

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