Harry Reid throws the public-option touchdown pass

Looks like game, set, match for the public option with the move by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to go all out for the public option, with a provision that would let states opt out, which should get all Democrats united to kill the Republican filibuster.

It was a master stroke. President Barack Obama, who has maneuvered against the public option behind the scenes, has thrown his weight behind Reid, which virtually guarantees that Reid will have 60 votes in the Senate.

There will be more fight to come, but the Senate will pass the Reid version of the public option, the House will pass a public option that will probably be even stronger, and from all over America there will be calls, letters, e-mails and television ads that will wage the fight until the fight is won.