First, you should all go read this.
I’m in a bit of a hurry and haven’t had time to let this stir in my head, so maybe my opinion will soften later on or I’ll see some sort of reason to it, but for now let me just say from the very bottom of my gut reaction:
YOU MISERABLE BUNCH OF WEAK-WILLED, COW-TOWING FUCKING COWARDS!!!
EDIT: The link above doesn’t lead to the article in question anymore, but the gist of it was that the president had decided that the public option was no longer a “must”.