Obama at the AFL-CIO picnic. Let's hope Harry Reid, Max Baucus, and the Blue Dogs hear this, and get off their duffs.Update: Apropos of the Public Option discussion, here is Paul Krugman: "Why the Public Option Matters"http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/why-the-public-option-matters/

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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