We started this whip count effort on June 23 because it became clear that in the course of making their deals with stakeholders, the Baucus Caucus (who were negotiating on behalf of the White House, with the participation of the White House) had very likely already dealt the public plan away. 

Rahm and Messina? Is that you, getting Ceci Connolly to spin your story again?

Lots of interesting numbers in the new NBC/WSJ. A few takeaways.

Yesterday, Chuck Todd on NBC defended his network’s biased poll, which eliminated the notion of choice from their question about a public option and then acted like it was news when support dropped.

Novak brings many secrets to the grave about his role in the Plame outing. Here are some of those secrets.

The “oh shit, I just became a youtube celebrity for the wrong reasons” look on her face was priceless

One can only guess at what finally convinced the White House to publicly admit that the Republicans have become a party of irresponsible, lying crazies. Maybe it had something to do wither their discovery that progressives are tired of being taken for granted.

Somewhere there is a war breaking out. There are too many people with too much money at stake to just sit back and accept this passively. “Bipartisan”was always code for “no public plan,” something to keep the thieves stakeholders (AMA, PhRMA, hospitals, device makers, etc.) at the table and their money out of GOP coffers for 2010.

FDL Action’s campaign, Stand Up for the Public Option, has raised $96,316. You can support it here.

David Broder’s obituary of Robert Novak, runs true to form.