Public Option vs. Republican Options

While Democrats debate whether health care reform should include a government-funded “public option” health insurer, most Republicans have been opposed to the Democrats’ conception of reform from the get-go. Democrats are now pressuring Obama to abandon bi-partisanship all together and ?go it alone.? But what would that mean for Republicans? Would they be ?left out,? ?left behind,? or, if reform were to fail, wind up as the “last party standing?” We host a Republican strategy session with Fred Barnes, the executive editor of the Weekly Standard, and Reihan Salam, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and author of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.