Support for Public Option in Obamacare Fading

Another Dem (or at least an independent who votes like a Dem) is withdrawing his support from nationalized health care. Joe Lieberman doesn't care much for it:

“I don’t favor a public option,” Lieberman told Bloomberg News in an interview broadcast this weekend. “And I don’t favor a public option because I think there’s plenty of competition in the private insurance market.”

Lieberman’s decision joins several other centrist Democrats’ decision to have publicly refused to back the plan, derided as a “government-run” plan by Republicans.

Centrist Democrats like Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.) have also been skittish to back the public option, which is favored by liberal Democrats and the Obama administration. If Republicans are able to pick off enough Democrats, they may be able to muster enough votes to filibuster any legislation that includes the public option.

I'm beginning to think this thing can be stopped, and it won't take many more defections to kill the public option altogether.