The headlines now read that liberals have dropped their plans for a government run option. Umm, hold on a second.

First of all, we don't have any concrete details yet. Secondly, we understand that there would be some sort of trigger mechanism. Finally, did anyone forget that Nancy Pelosi and her liberal friends in the House might have something to say about this considering that their House version has a public option in it?

Whatever the outcome, I think we've all learned a couple very valuable lessons.

First off, the fact that liberals can't get their "pure" version of the government run option through the Senate simply shows that HUGE hard left ideas like this simply won't fly in a "Center-Right" country. What we are seeing here is moderate Democrats from conservative states pushing back because their constituents aren't trilled with the government run option. Plain and simple. Basically what's going on here is that the majority of the country is not ready for something like this.

Secondly, Senate Majority Leader just doesn't have the votes in the Senate to get the "pure" pubic option through the chamber. That leads us to valuable lesson number two. Remember all that talk about how you need 60 votes to get anything done in the Senate. Hogwash. Technically you need 60 votes but the reality is you need more like 70. If Harry Reid had 70 votes to play with, he'd be sitty pretty because he could lose a few moderates or objectors along the way. But Reid has 58 Democrats and two Independents and that means he has no wiggle room. It's proving to be a huge problem.