Obama Makes Expansive Case For Public Option, Strong Moral Case For Reform Happy Hour Roundup: Big Speech Tonight! Department Of Pregnant Moments: Kennedy Family Will Be Pelosi’s Guests At Obama’s Speech White House Talking Points On Obama’s Speech: Republicans Need To Put Up Or Shut Up Weiner: “I Don’t See Any Way” I Can Vote For Bill Without Public Option The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog Happy Hour Roundup * A Pelosi hedge on the public option? Brian Beutler notices that after meeting with the President today, Nancy Pelosi said that the public option is still the best way to go — “for the moment.” * But a Pelosi spokesman says her position has not changed, and sends over her full quote: “And that’s why — but he said, if you have a better idea, put it on the table. And so if somebody has a better idea of how to do that, put it on the table. For the moment, however, as far as our House members are concerned, the overwhelming majority of them support a public option.” Hmm. * Glenn Thrush says there’s no doubt Pelosi is still gung-ho behind a public plan. * Is Harry hedging? Harry Reid said today that “something like” the public option will survive the leglislative process. * Jane Hamsher starts talking primaries for any House liberals who support a public option with a “trigger.” * Are the right and left even remotely equivalent when it comes to “mainstreaming the fringe”? * Paul Krugman on why the public option matters in political terms: Let me add a sort of larger point: aside from the essentially circular political arguments — centrist Democrats insisting that the public option must be dropped to get the votes of centrist Democrats — the argument against the public option boils down to the fact that it’s bad because it is, horrors, a government program. And sooner or later Democrats have to take a stand against Reaganism — against the presumption that if the government does it, it’s bad. * Speaking of the need for Dems to think big politically, others have already linked this, but it’s a must-read: Former top Obama adviser Steve Hillebrand telling Ben Smith that Obama “needs to be more bold in his leadership.” * In an interview with ABC News, House progressive leader Raul Grijalva expands on hisearlier comment that supporting a trigger amounts to “surrender.” * And Eric Kleefeld notes that Mark Foley — he of the House page scandal — is hosting a new radio show called “Inside the Mind of Mark Foley,” a title that’s presumably supposed to make you want to tune in to it.