Reply #137: The other side had no power to kill it. Only Obama did.

[No Elephants]

He heads the Executive Branch and this was a regulation of an agency of the Executive Branch that he halted.

(Word to those who believe or pretend to be believe that "independent" agencies are actually "independent" of Obama. They're not, just as we've been telling you.)

As for single payer, Obama said he favored single payer when he ran for Illinois legislature. However, when he ran for President, he said it was not possible to do in the U.S. because "we have all these systems in place."

That was untrue, of course. That untruth and ramping back up in Afghanistan were the two things he campaigned on that gave me a lot of pause. But I kept pushing them to the back of my mind.

And, after all, what did single payer really matter when he was promising a strong public option and no mandate? It would only be a matter of time before we got from public option to single payer, thought I.