Former HHS Secretary nominee, and enthusiastic free rider Tom Daschle^* has let slip that Obama cut a deal with pharma and insurers to kill the public option at the start of the healthcare reform process.

Eleventy dimensional chess, my ass. We are dealing with someone who has created faux reform because he does not want real reform.

^*The great Matt Taibbi noted, when he talked about his lobbying activities, “Tom Daschle would suck off a corpse for a cheeseburger.'”