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Uh boy. If you haven’t already, now is the time to call your Senator and Representatives, folks.

Reid & Pelosi think they have enough votes to arrogantly seize control of your health care and, by default, your life – and, yes, this INCLUDES a public option:

While White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today refrained from telling reporters whether President Obama in his speech Wednesday night will set a deadline for passing health care reform, sources tell ABC News that in his private meeting with Democratic congressional leaders this afternoon the key word was urgency.

The president told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., that it is important for them to pass health care reform bills soon, the sources said.

Both leaders told the president that despite the difficult rough and tumble of the legislative process in the last few weeks, they are optimistic that both the House and Senate can pass health care reform legislation.

What will be in the bill remains an open question, though after the meeting, Reid told reporters that “we’re going to do our very best to have a public option or something like a public option before we finish this work.”

Now is the time to resist.

Update: After letting this settle in my mind, I realize this is probably a cynical ploy by Pelosi & Reid to pressure fence-sitting Senators & Congressmen to lean their way – you know the ol’ ‘Joint the Bandwagon Or You’ll Lose Out” routine. They also want to get the hopes of the fringe progressive liberals up – the ones who are tantruming over the prospect of having no public option. Bah.

You know when the Democrats say “public option” they really mean “Trojan horse.”

Of course, the Chorus of Misery over at the DailyKos would very much like to get this horse inside America’s city gates to usher in an army of Universal Death Care zombies who wait patiently in long lines to feed upon the brains of the Evil Rich Who Dared To Prosper.

So, to this end, Drdemocrat of DailyKos (tis true – [mental] health professionals could be of great service to the Democratic party) employs the deception-by-headline technique used by SO many in the mostly-unprofessional mainstream media about a WSJ poll recently published.

Procliams Drdemocrat: 75% of Americans want public option!

Well, flip me like a burger at McDonalds & close the debate! It’s freakin’ overwhelming support for the happy-botox-smiley public option insurance!

But wait, what’s this I find:

There was also support for the Democratic push to let people sign up for a public health-care plan that would compete with private companies, one of the toughest issues in the health-care debate. Three in four people said a public plan is extremely or quite important. But when told the arguments for and against the plan, a smaller portion, 47%, agreed with arguments in support of the plan, with 42% agreeing with the arguments against it.

Oh, well, uhhh… is there a difference between “want” and “said public plan is extremely or quite important?” Yeah, but what about the NOT BOLDED part afterward saying that “WHEN [THEY WERE] TOLD THE ARGUMENTS” 47% supported and 42% opposed.

I guess it’s not really 75% – how ’bout that. Of course nearly everyone would love free health insurance! But, what’s telling is that when people understand the consequences, they are A LOT less likely to “want” Universal Death Care. Maybe someone should tell ABCNews?