NOW THERE'S A LEADER, HUH?:

Senators: Obama Didn’t Mention Public Option or Abortion (Rick Klein and Z. Byron Wolf, 12/06/09, ABC News)

Senators who were looking for President Obama to tread into the legislative weeds today didn’t get their wish.

The president’s 40-minute meeting with members of the Senate Democratic caucus stayed broad, according to senators and aides who were inside the meeting. He didn’t mention either the public option or abortion – the two issues that Democratic leaders acknowledge continue to vex efforts to find compromise in the Senate.

They've made it clear they don't care what's in the bill so long as something passes and he can claim to have done at least one thing in his first year in office, so it's fine for him to have no position on the central issues involved, but why send him to the meeting?

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 6, 2009 4:45 PM