The debate over the public option was not what slowed the legislation. What did it was the many months while Obama waited Max Baucus tried to get bipartisan support, only to see the Republicans keep moving the goal posts, only when the White House finally Concluded that Republican "moderate" were not negotiating in good faith did the thing finally get moving.
so look at how the Village constructs its mythology. The real story, of pretend moderate stalling action by pretending to be persuadable, has been rewritten as a story of how those DF hippies got in the way, until the Centrist saved the day. The worst of it is that I suspect Obama's memory has gone down the same hole.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/orwellian-centrism/ 
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