WHAT PART OF THIS DO THEY NOT GET?:

Health Deals Anger Former Obama Staffers, Supporters (Stephanie Condon, 9/08/09, CBS News)

President Obama has said in recent weeks that he still supports a government-sponsored health insurance plan, or "public option," but he has stopped short of calling it a necessary element of health care reform. For tens of thousands of his supporters, that is not good enough.

More than 70,000 former Obama campaign staffers, volunteers and donors have signed a petition, spearheaded by the liberal group the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, saying as much.

Mr. Obama achieved everything he set out to do when he got to add a new line at the top of his CV.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 8, 2009 12:11 PM