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If there is one consistent message coming from the Democratic Party today, it is that the so-called “public option” for ObamaCare is NOT, repeat NOT inevitably going to lead to a single-payer system. Any claims that it is are, of course, just Republican lies and spin.

Someone needs to tell Barney Frank that:

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Kevin Hassett over at Bloomberg is speculating that Obama’s strategy is to effectively bankrupt American businesses so that he can nationalize them. It’s one of those theories that six months ago people would have dismissed as a kooky conspiracy theory, but with the track that the Democratic Congress and Obama are taking it’s seemingly more plausible every day.

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