Conyers Tired of Saving Obama's Can

On Thursday, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) a supporter of a single-payer approach to health care, accused the President of "bowing down" to Republicans and corporate interests on health reform. During an appearance on the Bill Press radio show, Conyers said: "I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House. He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn't even anything to write home about. The only way he could have got it through was that progressives held their nose."

Conyers accused the President of doing a "disservice" to what he'd once stood for. "Holding hands out and beer on Friday nights in the White House, and bowing down to every nutty, right-wing proposal about healthcare, and saying on occasion the public option isn't all that important, is doing a disservice to the Barack Obama that I first met, who was an ardent single-payer enthusiast himself."