You Have to Die First, to be Resurrected (Public Option Edition)

Was the Public Option really as dead as the mainstream media (and even most recently by Josh Marshall) have been making out?

Or was this yet another example of 'He-said-She-said' journamalism where the reality on the ground -- Dems got the votes, Dems got the votes -- was conveniently ignored so that we could hear yet more of Chuck Grassley and Olympia Snowe?

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