This weekend Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius kicked up a fuss when she seemed to signal that that the Administration might be willing to jettison the "public option"-a government-run insurance program akin to Medicare-in an effort to get some kind of health care reform passed. Outrage ensued: Howard Dean told CBS News that "You can't really have reform without a public option," while Matt Taibbi angrily (surprise!) observed that "the Democrats had in reality already managed to kill the public option by watering it down to the point of near-meaninglessness. But the notion that our president not only does not have any use anymore for a public option, but in fact 'will be satisfied' if there is merely 'choice and competition' in the market is, well, disgusting." The White House is already "clarifying" the remarks, claiming that Sebelius "misspoke" or "the media misplayed" her comments. But, as the video above notes, there's a lot of wiggle room. So basically, nobody knows anything. You wonder why the White House might have put it out there in the first place.