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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Heartening To See That Healthcare Reform Is Back



Nobody should doubt at this point that Obama's hopeful noises about the upcoming Healthcare Summit not amounting to partisan theater are functioning precisely as partisan theater framing the partisan theater we all properly expect to play out. That the GOP find themselves unable to escape another televised forum with the President, discussing issues of enormous import to the American people on terms that will only strengthen his hand is also heartening, as are the ongoing background rumblings of a House-Senate deal in the works and mounting highly public pressure and momemtum to sidecar the Public Option through reconciliation (worst case, this is a going to be bargain chipped away for a nod from the Snowe Queen or some comparable idiocy, but even that is better than the worse worst case of nothing going through after this year-long atrocity exhibition of hyperbole and ineffectuality).

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