Obama to endorse House health care reform bill, but....

There's always a "but."

In fact, Politico reports, the Obama administration will endorse the House bill, but the White House won't say that the House bill any better than the Senate bill, which they also endorse. Get it?

This way the White House can be everyone's friend, rather than actually taking a stand for the strongest health care reform possible.

When has the White House, any White House, ever had a problem saying that it preferred one bill over another? Of course, most worrisome is the fact that, in the end, it's not at all clear that the White House would support the stronger bill if they did speak out. As that's the bill that Olympia Snowe, and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, would dislike more. And the ultimate goal far too often seems to be passing something with as many GOP votes as possible, and as little conflict as possible, rather than passing the strongest health care reform possible.