OBAMA RETREATS from fight on public option. I heard Bob Corker on Hallerin Hill’s radio show this morning, and Corker seemed to think we’d wind up with a pro-free-market health bill at the end of this. Reading (er, listening?) between the lines, I think he meant that Obama will be desperate to get something that he can call “health care reform,” and, now that he’s given up on public option, not too particular about what that is. That might allow some things that actually help — or maybe it’s a clever Axelrodian trap. . . .