Why Reform Survived August

New Republic by Jonathan Cohn | Sep. 8, 2009 (News Analysis)

The August recess began with critics attacking health care reform because of its high price tag. It ended with critics attacking health care reform because of how reformers proposed to reduce that high price tag. Full Story »

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by Thomas R. Hustvet - Sep. 9, 2009

While based on "opinion" it grounds itself on interaction with likely central players or those quite familiar with them I believe. It resolates with what I know, for example about Sen. Grassley, and have heard from a number of sources about Sen. Snowe.

The country, all of us, gave G.W. Bush his war in Iraq because we thought he had won the election. We will give the new president his war also -in health care. The marginalized conservatives will not be able to stop this. President Obama feels he must pursue Afganistan to avoid a coup of the new confederacy and . unfortunately, he may be right.