While the public option...

...took a beating this weekend from Obama, Sebelius, and Conrad, my guess is that dropping it would be a last-ditch effort to craft a bipartisan bill in the Senate. If that doesn't work, I wonder if they'll just reinsert it and ram the bill through the Senate on a reconciliation vote. I could live with either one, especially if a "coop" is just the public option in disguise. As Rahm Emanuel has said, “The only nonnegotiable principle here is success. Everything else is negotiable.”