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By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThere are few places more precarious than where you stand after being sent to launch a trial balloon -- when there's flak all around and those whose idea it was could pull the rug out from under you. Just ask Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who an Obama administration official is now saying misspoke when she gave the very broad hint Sunday that the "public option" for health care reform might be abandoned. ...
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