Death Panels

Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad is basically saying at this point there's no way a public option will pass and that Obama should just simply drop it.

A key Senate negotiator said Sunday that President Barack Obama should drop his push for a government-funded public health insurance option because the Senate will never pass it.

Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota said it was futile to continue to "chase that rabbit" due to the lack of 60 Senate votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

"The fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option. There never have been," Conrad said on "FOX News Sunday."

And of course, the only acceptable health care reform to Republicans is no health care reform whatsoever. The Village has convinced America that no reform is better than anything the Democrats have. And Democrats like Kent Conrad aren't about to develop a spine and fight it.

Murtha's out. Conrad's out too. More and more Dems are jumping ship. They've been convinced that voters will reward them for stopping health care reform. Voters will do so by replacing them with Republicans.

My kingdom for a spine.

[UPDATE 1:48 PM] Add HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to the growing list of Democrats and administration officials offering to drop the public option, along with the President himself. No matter what remains in the plan, the Republicans running Congress and the Village will kill it.

At what point do we start asking who killed Obamacare?