Will the Left Kill Obamacare?

The American left's hatred of health insurance companies seems to be trumping its desire for healthcare reform.

Sure looks that way. First Howard Dean objects, next the AFL-CIO.

Now Mickey Kaus directs us to this Wall Street Journal poll showing that 45% think it "unacceptable" to drop the public option.

While exercising due skepticism that anywhere close to 45% of Americans know what the public option IS, there seems no doubt - the American left's hatred of health insurance companies seems to be trumping its desire for healthcare reform. That trump may doom the president's plan - and the party's 2010 chances. For all the media attention always directed to anger on the right, perhaps the real news in 2010 will be the power - and the price - of the anger on the left?