Waste of money:

A top White House ally, the labor-backed Americans United for Change, is up with a new Web video touting Bill O’Reilly’s unexpected endorsement of the public option and hitting Republicans for trying to “kill” it. But there’s no mention of Dems who oppose a public plan: “Republican leaders” thought they could “slow” the public option and “kill it,” the vid says, claiming that in fact the public option is very much alive.

Republicans are in the deep minority in Congress. The only reason they can try to slow things down and kill anything is because they are being enabled by Democrats. In the Senate, it's been Kent Conrad and Max Baucus. In the House, it's been the Blue Dogs. And the White House itself has encouraged those efforts by reiterating public support for a "bipartisan" solution.

The American people elected huge Democratic majorities because they wanted Democratic solutions to many of our nation's problems. Not because they wanted Democrats to allow Republicans -- the cause of most of our problems -- to continue running the government. Yet even now, after months of Democratic obstruction, the best these "White House allies" can do is lob barbs at irrelevant Republicans.

They should focus their fire on the individuals who are actually the problem.