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[lsanderson]

Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
By CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY
Published: August 18, 2009

WASHINGTON — Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks. More

It's nice that they only needed to be hit over the head with a shovel several hundred times...

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[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Your comment on that resonates with me. OTOH, I can't strongly disagree with the tried-and-true meeting chairmanship/Rules of Order technique of letting people go on until just about everyone is sick & tired of them before taking action to squelch them, and I'm not absolutely positive that the Dem. Leadership has been off (on the slow side) in their timing. (On the gripping hand, it sure seems that they don't understand the essentials of bargaining -- they should've started by asking for a _lot_ more than they expected (or even hoped) to get -- impeachment, NHS-style healthcare, &cet. -- and worked their way down from there.)