If you're not willing to walk away from a negotiation, then you will get played every time. Feingold sounds as if he might be willing to walk away.
Increasingly, there are senators on the liberal side of the spectrum who say they won't pass a plan that includes the trigger provision.
"To me that would be a very serious gap and it would be a very strong reason not to support it," Sen. Russ Feingold told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "We need a public option. We need something that would cause some control over the abuses that have occurred in the insurance industry."
Triggers, Feingold added, are "just an invitation for the insurance industry to manipulate the situation for a couple of years just so they can avoid the trigger and so they can convince members of Congress to delay it again. We need to do something now."
