Landrieu is right. Obama campaigned on fixing the system we have. He didn't campaign on a public option. He campaigned on competition, in whatever form that took. He has expressed that the public option could work but he never advocated full on for the public option.
That was the holy grail for the left. Obama laid out the guiding principles and asked democrats to come up with the plan, but clearly, there is no leadership, minus Obama, within the democratic party.
I'm sure republicans are gleefully toasting somewhere:
