Of bi-partisan health care and puppy dogs
Olympia Snowe and Suzan Collins are going to vote for the bill that finally passes in late January.
Because otherwise there ain't gonna be no health care bill.
Last night was the high water of democratic votes. That train has left the station and now Reid and Pelosi are going to have to compromise sufficiently to get the two Mainers aboard. Which also means Liebernan and maybe even Grassley. Voinevich ? .
And they will. Because they're serious politicians and they know how to count the house.
Any effort we make here on the left to attempt to prevent them doing that will be at best ineffective, more likely counter productive. We can spend the next eight weeks insisting on the impossible and then the 10 months after that whining because we didn't get our way. And then foolishly sit out the election.
Or we can fact the facts that there aren't 60 senate votes for what we want so we have to start wanting what there are 60 senate votes for
.If you want to make it to Dawson you need eight huskies to pull the sled.. And a puppy dog to throw to the wolves











