Credit to People to Whom I Rarely Give Credit

Credit to Harry Reid, a person to whom I rarely give credit: a public option (albeit with opt-out) will be in the final Senate bill. Schumer is happy. Dodd is happy. Rockerfeller is happy. Gibbs says Obama is happy. Josh Marshall is happy. Durbin says the progressive wing made it happen. And Max Baucus is on-board. In fact, Open Left's whip count suggests that Reid has sixty votes for cloture, with only Blanche Lincoln still publicly non-commital.